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...their views before world opinion. Still, crossing the lines is tricky. "The technique," says one experienced correspondent, "is to wave something white, like a shirt or a sheet, and yell 'press' in the appropriate language. Drive slowly, don't get them startled, honk in the daylight and blink headlights at night." Last week, however, NBC's Al Rosenfeld neglected the technique. Waved past a Greek outpost, he and an assistant headed across no man's land without signaling. Rosenfeld was hit in the face by a Turkish bullet. He piled...
...adviser's" role is not easy. Last week five more U.S. servicemen died in Viet Nam-two Army officers and an Air Force captain killed when an electric mine was detonated under their Jeep; an Army major shot dead by guerrillas in broad daylight in a village ten miles from Saigon; another major caught by machine-gun fire that raked his Vietnamese Ranger battalion. The roll of American dead would grow at a swifter pace as reinforcements arrived. Said a senior U.S. official in Saigon dryly: "When you put more people in a zone traversed by enemy bullets, your...
That point was well illustrated last week when the Viet Cong guerrillas struck punishingly across the Mekong Delta. For the umpteenth time, an army battalion hurrying to relieve an outpost under attack-this time 120 miles south of Saigon-walked into an ambush in broad daylight...
...pipes stolen during the week from the Phillips Brooks House Organ and the small practice organ in Memorial Church have been recovered. Yesterday morning Cambridge police thwarted a third attempt at pipe-swiping, but only after the burglar had already completed a pair of either daring or native broad-daylight robberies...
Harvard and the rest of New England go on Daylight Saving Time Sunday, providing an hour of extra evening sunlight in which to cross Weeks Bridge in safety. The official time change takes place at 2 a.m., which becomes...