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...nobody had been told about the worst aspect of the expansion plan. Erwin proposed moving a street over and completely destroying the stretch of Waller Creek I described. Even with the expansion he didn't have to destroy the creek (which he wanted to make into a concrete drainage ditch): the architecture students had drawn up an alternate plan that would have caused only a fraction of the destruction. Even if one considers the 14,000 seats justified, it's hard to justify ruining the creek...
...shooting had died down by the time the men of the other two platoons filed into the hamlet. Sergeant Terry told newsmen that he and his squad were settling down for some chow when they noticed that some Vietnamese in a pile of bodies in a nearby ditch "were still breathing." Continued Terry: "They were pretty badly shot up. They weren't going to get any medical help, and so we shot them, shot maybe five of them." Then they broke for lunch...
...Jurieu driving in a car, the barest amount of background road visible in the window behind him, pans across the front seat to the close-up face of his friend Octave, grimacing nervously. Renoir cuts to a distant high-angle; the car drives off the road into a ditch. Renoir cuts to a frame three-quarters filled by waving grass: it's impossible to say whether it's a low-angle shot and the characters are about to appear over its edge, or whether he's shooting a hill, or indeed where we are at all. The shooting...
...intended for broadcast-were introduced into the conspiracy trial over defense objections that such a move violates the freedom and independence of the press. "It's just that I am in the wrong occupation," Carl Oilman said last week. "If I had been a construction worker or a ditch digger, none of this would have mattered." Precisely...
...DEPLETION. Despite a last-ditch attempt by Chairman Long to hold the oil-depletion allowance at its present 27½%, the Finance Committee bowed to public pressure to attack what many regard as the most egregious of tax shelters. Beaten, Long himself led a move to reduce the allowance to 23% - a higher figure than the House-approved cut to 20% - hoping to forestall an even greater reduction. The Senate version of the bill substantially reduces the additional taxes to be collected from the oil industry. Where the House bill would have raised the industry's taxes...