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Nonetheless, the rapid troop buildup has caused horrendous cargo backups, which in turn limit the number of fighting men who can be supported in Viet Nam. To the dismay of field commanders, replacement troops have to be based in Okinawa and other reserve areas far from the front. With an average of 100 ships a day standing off their harbors, South Viet Nam's six biggest ports can at present handle only 17. As many as 40 ships at a time have been diverted to Japan, Okinawa and the Philippines to await docking space in Viet Nam; hundreds more...
...ticket!" An executive who was stuck in his 32nd-floor office with two attractive secretaries tried to sleep there?but his wife phoned every 15 minutes throughout the night. Thousands curled up in church pews?and at St. Patrick's Cathedral discovered to their dismay that there are no rest rooms. "We've been sending people over to the New Weston Hotel for 80 years," said Msgr. Thomas McGovern...
...movie's boldest innovation is that the Broadway principals are allowed to repeat their roles: Maureen O'Sullivan as a small-town matron of grandmotherly age who haplessly becomes pregnant; and Paul Ford as her sixtyish mate, who reacts to his achievement with the dismay of a man who has accidentally set his garage on fire. All flab and fury, Ford ignites laughter on any occasion, whether he is donning dark glasses outside a layette shop or explaining at length that he likes "serious fun," such as tending to business down at the lumberyard: "Fun is when...
...determined that the blacks will never rule. Deep in their hearts, they believe that the first African government would murder them in their beds and drive them off the land. As Africa's former colonies have been granted their freedom, the settlers have shaken their heads in dismay. They talk of the violence of the Congo, of the autocracy of Ghana, of Communist penetration everywhere...
...acronym for the abortive coup d'état that killed six loyal generals and nearly toppled Sukarno. Gestapu-the initial syllables of the 30th of September Movement-is now Indonesia's vilest villain, as Sukarno's heir apparent, Foreign Minister Subandrio, learned much to his dismay. The army was now wondering if he did not have a role in the bloody coup attempt. But last week Subandrio tried to blame it all on the American CIA. "There are indications," he declared in a speech beneath tinkling glass chandeliers at Merdeka Palace, "that several Indonesian newspapers...