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...walkout was supported by ex-President Juan Bosch and proved highly effective. Factories and sugar mills shut down, dock workers stomped off their jobs, and even Santo Domingo's airport had to be closed. With the nation headed toward full paralysis, Rivera Caminero finally took the hint. Turning control of the armed forces over to Colonel Enrique Perez y Perez, he sailed off to the U.S. aboard a Dominican Navy frigate...
...Look at It Now." Last week alone, the 10,000 men of the 18th Engineer Brigade were building a 10,000-ft. jet-fighter strip at Phan Rang, a floating dock that will double the capacity of the Qui Nhon harbor, a communications facility and a 60-bed hospital for the 1st Air Cavalry at An Khe, a 250,000-sq.-yd. ammunition dump at Long Binh, and fortifications and housing at Cu Chi for newly arrived troops of the 25th Division. In one recent seven-day period, the men of the 18th worked 161,923 man-hours, hauling...
INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE. In the dock of self-accusation, a man charges that his life has become an obscenity. John Osborne's anti-hero-a defeated solicitor in his middle years-has lost his way but not his wittily vituperative voice, and Nicol Williamson, 28, brings this grieving, raging character to memorable life in the most powerful male performance Broadway has seen in more than a decade...
INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE. In the dock of self-accusation, a man charges that his life has become an obscenity. In the middle years, John Osborne's antihero has lost his way but not his wittily vituperative voice, and Nicol Williamson brings this character to memorable life in the most powerful male performance Broadway has seen in more than a decade...
...mosquito spray in the midst of a malarial epidemic that has forced the evacuation of 800 infected servicemen: 37,500 gallons were borrowed from other bases. Twice the U.S.S. Kimbro set sail for Viet Nam from the Philippines, only to be ordered back because of lack of dock space for its cargo of rockets, bombs and 175-mm. shells. Last week the ship finally made it, and just in time: the troops at Qui Nhon were running low on 175-mm. ammo...