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Rogers worked with that same commander for weeks without really gaining his confidence. Finally, Rogers recalls, "there was a Viet Cong sniper who seemed to nip away at us every evening after supper. I used to sneak down to a dike just behind him and try to catch him. Then I went to Saigon for a couple of days. When I got back, I noticed my counterpart grinning widely. That evening he told me that that V. C. wasn't going 'Bang! Bang!' any more. He had shot him during my absence. He showed me the brand...
...Kaiser has taken on an extraordinarily heavy debt load, which both limits the payment of cash dividends and makes the company vulnerable to any severe recession in the future. Last year his engineers lost $16 million, largely because a Kaiser dam in Greece was washed out by floods. A dike-building project in Israel was damaged when the Dead Sea overflowed-for the first time since the days of Moses. Other businessmen often wonder why Kaiser is deeply committed in such unpredictable areas as Latin America (where Kaiser-Willys is the continent's biggest auto producer), or India (where...
Breedlove soon boosted the mark to 526 m.p.h.-and nearly killed himself when Spirit clipped through a telephone pole, soared 35 ft. over a dike, and dived into a 20-ft.-deep drainage ditch...
...year ago, when inflationary tides threatened the booming French economy, up stepped French Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing to put his finger in the dike. "Every hole where inflation could infiltrate will be plugged," he promised. Shopwindows blossomed with yellow signs promising to hold the price line. Giscard cut back credit, let in a flood of foreign goods to boost competition. When both business and labor howled at the pinch, Giscard donned a V-neck sweater to make a soft-sell pitch on television direct to the thrifty French housewife...
...years, the freckled blonde from Hans Brinkerland has been dazzling European fans with her silver skates. Now American audiences will have a chance to see the twisting double axels, flying camels, and sizzling sit-spins that have made The Netherlands Sjoulcje Dijkstra (pronounced Shaw-keya Dike-stra), 22, European, world and Olympic champion. Outdistancing Sonja Henie as the world's most highly paid winterland performer, Sjoukje signed a two-year contract with the U.S.'s Holiday on Ice show for a reported $50,000 to $90,000 a year, a fancy figure that, if she likes to wear...