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...night, 500 Viet Cong regulars swooped down on a strategic hamlet under a screen of supporting fire from heavy machine guns and recoilless rifles. Desperately calling for help over their radio, the defenders fought back doggedly, but were barely holding out when a government infantry relief column arrived at dawn with 15 armored personnel carriers. Ambushed by the Reds, the government reinforcements did not panic, nosed their personnel carriers off the road and into the paddies, heading directly for the dug-in Reds...
...Death at Dawn. The Negroes passing by were noisy, and someone shouted at them from a second-story window of the Supply Squadron barracks. No one knows who did the shouting. No one agrees on what was shouted. But unquestionably, the shouts contained what Negro soldiers at Evreux call "the magic word"-nigger. Rushing into their own barracks, the Negroes grabbed 12-in. metal rods used to transform beds into bunks and raced across the street...
...clock. The only sour face belongs to the game warden and to the occasional cattleman whose cow comes down with colic from eating shell casings. Bird fanciers, who in some states have gotten doves classified as "songbirds" and made them illegal to hunt, fail to darken the Imperial Valley dawn. Game managers have proved that the birds' talent for dodging, plus enthusiastic mating habits, keep the dove population constant, and there is no reason to deprive 100,000 hungry hunters of their delicate game. Said one last week: "I don't care if they sing like Caruso...
...down stairs and in and out of an antique glass-walled elevator in a frantic attempt to find her apartment so he can unload her. When he finally gets rid of her and back on the street, he is missing a shoe, goes hippety-hoppety down the avenue at dawn, wondering if girls are worth the effort...
...drinkers were few; the majority of the young and not so young behaved as well as they danced ineptly. When one exuberant youth started to steal a lantern as the party dissolved into the rainy dawn, his girl deftly doused him with the teenagers' squelch supreme: "How immature...