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Province-by-province surveys are compiling accurate road maps-not so much for autos but to pinpoint emergency landing strips. Combat mobility studies have determined that military vehicles able to cross a 22-in.-high paddy dike are capable of crossing 95% of the dikes encountered in Thailand...
Perhaps it is not all so terrible after all, he continued. "If one is willing to accept the finger-in-the-dike argument in support of any spot of literacy, there is some small justification for every magazine." While waiting for that spot, "we editors shall simply have to endure, talking to ourselves and our faithful little bands of subscribers...
...Fitzsimmons couldn't plug the dike forever, and he didn't have a chance on the five goals the Terriers poured in in the second period...
...milk each morning. Fishermen in Kenya are content: the U.S. gave them new boats so they could catch fish twice as fast, and now they only work half as long. But oops! That $2.6 billion sent to Yugoslavia seems to have sunk without a trace. In Jordan a dike that cost the U.S. close to $1,000,000 meanders across the flinty desert for dozens of miles, waiting to trap rain that never falls. And in Indonesia, as one cynic puts it, the net effect of much teaching aid is to assure that "the anti-American signs in Djakarta...
...captain and a sergeant who try to recruit a company of soldiers in the country town of Shrewsbury during the War of the Spanish Succession. Brecht changed the time to 1776; his Captain Plume is the hero of Bunker Hill (he won the battle by cutting open a dike so that the American "dirt farmers" fled to try to save their fields). He and Sergeant Kite are unable to recruit men successfully by legal means; they try various tricks and finally resort to a morality campaign which "cleans up" Shrewsbury by having a justice of the peace find the community...