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...third consecutive week passed without a major Communist onslaught, more and more U.S. and Vietnamese officials were venturing to speculate that the worst of the fighting on the ground might be over. Meanwhile, the war from the skies was deadlier than ever. The Nixon Administration last week ordered another increase in the bombing of North Viet Nam. One additional squadron of B-52s was ordered into action, and the range of targets was expanded to include factories, power plants and chemical works. With good weather over the North, the U.S. Air Force and Navy were counting on 20 bombing days...
...works as an artist in a New York advertising agency. In 1939, because he was a Jew in Nazi-occupied Prague, he had to leave art school. In 1941, at age 18, he was sent to Terezin, a camp the Nazis used as a staging point for deadlier installations like Auschwitz. Kantor went there too, in 1943, but was saved from death because he was still strong enough to be drafted for work at a camp that provided laborers for a synthetic-fuel factory. In a brief introductory narrative, Kantor explains all this, and outlines what life and the presence...
...trying to survive. Few writers mix comedy and cruelty more offhandedly or more effectively. Witness a redneck farmhand's wife contemplating the Polish family's broken English: "They can't talk. You reckon they'll know what colors even is?" As her hostile speculations grow deadlier, she recalls a newsreel showing bodies stacked in a concentration camp, then thinks of -"ten billion of them pushing their way into new places over here...
...Department of Agriculture is watching for any outbreak of African swine fever, a disease deadlier than anthrax or hog cholera. Swine fever is said to be epidemic in Cuba and it is possible that an imported Cuban ham could carry the disease to Mexico, thence to the U.S. No known vaccine exists to combat...
Perhaps, but among the 418 concrete-and-steel coffins holding nerve-gas rockets is one far deadlier than the others...