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Rhythmically and spatially, like commuters crisscrossing in a train depot, his dancers move independently of one another. The effect is often riveting. Summerspace evokes moods and memories of sunshiny days by the sea; How to Pass, Kick, Fall and Run, danced to the accompaniment of Composer John Cage sitting onstage, smoking, drinking champagne and reading aloud from his memoirs, is zany, true, and touching all at once...
...regular hiking companion with Major General R. McC. Tompkins, U.S.M.C., former commanding general, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, S.C., and now commanding general, 3rd Marine Division, Viet Nam, I wish to correct your statement concerning the general's " . . . limp at the end of a ten-mile hike" [Nov. 24]. From my observation of General Tompkins, as we hiked with thousands of (wide-eyed) recruits on weekly twelve-mile jaunts at Parris Island, I can assure you this statement is incorrect-there is no limp. The general does carry a walking stick when hiking which, in his words...
...most savage fighting, on Hill 875, overlooking Dak To. After a five-day battle, U.S. troops finally took possession of the summit-and discovered why the Communists had fought so long and hard to defend the bamboo-wreathed elevation. Hill 875 proved to be a giant supply depot of bunkers, tunnels and interconnecting passageways burrowed into the earth. It was one of the most massive, deeply entrenched fortresses encountered...
...kind of end run is hardly new to the Communists, who have often used Prince Norodom Sihanouk's neutral kingdom as a gateway and a sanctuary. But the rising intensity of the war is causing them to use Cambodia more and more as a launching pad and supply depot...
...depot system was adopted after pressure from the Gordon Linen Service which sub-contracts the HSA service. Harvard had been the only one of forty schools serviced by Gordon which did not use a depet system. The company had advised the HSA that they would not continue the contract at the present price unless deliveries to individual rooms were eliminated...