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...Everything rusts or mildews," complained Navy Lieut. Commander Richard Escajeda, head surgeon of the marines' "Charlie Med" hospital at Danang. "The sterilized linen never dries. Bugs crawl into our surgical packs. Mud is everywhere." An earthier-or muddier-protest came from a jungle-hardened trooper in the 1st Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment, bivouacked with the U.S. 173rd Airborne Brigade. "Ya know, I been here for six weeks, and for five of 'em I've never been dry," he lamented. "If a man ain't wet with sweat, he's drenched with rain...
Seventeen news photographers drown or die of concussions as Lynda Bird Johnson spends a holiday surfing in California. Spacecraft Gemini 8 and Gemini 9 establish an historic orbital link-up. Astronaut Roger Overendhout, clad in red, white, and blue underwear, is able to crawl from one capsule to another. Playing a tube he had carefully smuggled aboard in his space suit, he performs a riotous impromptu strip-tease for the laughing crew of Gemini 8. Astronaut Kirwood Derby Jr., using a small NBC-TV camera he was carefully paid $10,000 to smuggle aboard in his spacesuit, records the whole...
Sands of the Kalahari. A hired plane crashes and burns in the wastes of South-West Africa. Out of the flaming wreckage crawl six survivors: five men and a woman. Their plight unknown, they face an ordeal by sun, sand, hunger, thirst and, as it turns out, sexual desire. Who will live? Who will die? Who will prove his strength, or weakness? And who will get the girl...
...nature never dreamed of, and in patterns taken right off the walls of an Op-Pop gallery. The fun furs are for secretaries who want the feel of fur without the financial pinch of mink and for two-mink socialites who are looking for new skins to crawl into...
...horse-drawn Russian army cart creaked to a halt before the cement cellblock at Auschwitz. Gathering their tattered bundles, a dozen silent men crawled into the wagon, huddled together against the cold, and jolted through the gate into the snowy darkness. Among them was Primo Levi, a young Italian Jew who had been interned for two years at Auschwitz and the nearby slave-labor camp of Buna-Monowitz. In an earlier book, If This Is a Man, Chemist-Sociologist Levi recalled his imprisonment in chilling detail. In this reflective sequel, he tells of his arduous return to life. With jovial...