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...lead chopper erupted in a burst of fire and smoke, then crashed on its back in a flooded paddyfield, carrying five men to death. Whether the Dong Ha bound Huey was destroyed by Communist gunfire, sabotage or a freak accident may never be known, though Hanoi was quick to crow that its gunners had downed the bird. What was known was that the U.S. Marine Corps had lost its first division commander to be killed in any war: Major General Bruno A. Hochmuth, 56, two-star boss of the 26,000-man 3rd Marine Division, which has borne the brunt...
...three of the four men who lunched together last week in the executive dining room of Britain's Associated Electrical Industries Ltd. on Grosvenor Place, London, the menu included a side order of crow. The humiliation of A.E.I. Chairman Sir Charles Wheeler, Chief Executive Sir Joseph Latham and Finance Director John Barber stemmed from the circumstances of the lunch. Their guest, General Electric Co. Ltd. Managing Director Arnold Weinstock, 43, had just acquired their company in one of the bitterest takeover battles in British business history and had come to Grosvenor Place to begin putting it into effect...
...crackup, he has developed a blood disease that causes frequent nosebleeds, and fogging out. What mainly sustains him nowadays is the heady thrill of success, the joy of being called upon to create bigger and more exciting monuments-and alcohol. He consumes at least half a bottle of Old Crow or vodka...
...HARTE C. CROW...
...time Lunar Orbiter 5 finishes snapping its 426 pictures this week, space experts should have even more to crow about. The last of the Orbiters is taking detailed pictures of lunar features such as the Aristarchus crater, a thermally anomalous "hot spot" that has long provoked scientific interest and speculation. Lunar Orbiter 5 has also sent back photographs indicating a likely future landing site near a permanently shaded area in a region adjacent to the Lunar North Pole. "In such shaded areas," says Harold Masursky, of the U.S. Geological Survey at Menlo Park, Calif., "we can find out what...