Word: directs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vietnamese seldom shell at night, presumably because they do not want to give away their positions with muzzle flashes. Much of the life of the 480 men manning Gio Linh is lived below ground in heavily sandbagged bunkers supported by thick wooden beams that can take all but a direct hit. In summer, when the temperature reaches 120°, the camp is a swirl of choking ocher dust. In the fall, the monsoons fill the bunkers with two feet of water and mud, turn the trenches into running red rivers of sludge...
Meals are served three times a day in an underground bunker, but only to five men at a time-so that there will never be too many men in the same place in the event of a direct hit. No one ventures above ground without his flak jacket and helmet, although most Marines carry their helmets and go bareheaded in order to hear incoming shells better. The first warning is the boom of the gun across the Ben Hai River separating the two Viet Nams. Then comes the quavering whistle of the shell tearing through the air, followed quickly...
...most direct and serious provocation occurred in the Himalayan kingdom of Sikkim, whose defense and foreign policy are controlled by India. On Sikkim's border with China, Communist troops suddenly opened fire with machine guns and mortars on Indian soldiers laying wire at the 14,000-ft.-high Natu Pass. The Indians fired back, and for four days gunfire and cannonades echoed through the thin Himalayan air, causing numerous casualties on both sides. It was the worst Sino-Indian border incident since the Chinese invasion...
A.F.P. is the direct descendant of the Havas news agency, the stodgy progenitor of all agency reporting, established in 1835 by Charles Havas. Used by the Germans for their own purposes, mostly propaganda, during World War II, the agency was forced to start from scratch as a government enterprise in 1944 under the name Agence France Presse. It played a slow, largely interpretive fourth flute to AP, UPI and Reuters for a decade...
...indeed soaring: last year computer makers installed some 13,000 systems worth some $5 billion, double their output in 1962. By the early '70s, Diebold predicts, the business will triple to $15 billion a year. Though 80% of the nation's computers are leased, most are on direct rental from manufacturers. The computer-leasing firms have been able to elbow their way in by the classic route of price cutting. They generally charge at least 10% less than the manufacturer's rental fee. In doing so, they are betting that they can keep their costly machines continuously...