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Bulging with five-year plans, confidential memos and balance statements, the dozen-odd attache cases are seldom out of their owner's sight. At work in New York, he lovingly lines them up on window ledges in his twelfth-floor office overlooking Park Avenue; at night, he takes a couple of them back to his East Side apartment for bedtime reading. For his frequent trips to Europe, he picks up four or five and carries them along on the plane. And on weekends, he lugs several to his weathered, two-bedroom cottage in New England, where he pores over...
...Brigadier General Nguyen Chanh Thi, the mustached, intense commander of the I Corps in the northern region, and Air Vice Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky, who affects harlequin glasses and a pearl-handled revolver. Squads of police sped through Saigon's darkened streets, arresting seven council members and a dozen-odd politicians and student leaders...
Alternately driven and dreaming, irresponsible and ingratiating, mean-spirited and maudlin, Audubon was inevitably misunderstood by contemporaries and, maintains Biographer Alice Ford, "errantly idealized" by her dozen-odd predecessors. As an antidote, Author Ford has presented, in rather stilted fashion, back-to-back facts that usefully clear away the web of fabrication that the Audubon family did their best to spin...
...Bundesbahn, the federal railway whose reasonable fares, remarkable luxury and religiously on-time operation make it a favorite of the German people. With 19,000 track miles, the Bundesbahn is not only one of the West's largest railway systems-it was put together in 1920 from a dozen-odd separate lines-but one of its finest...
...Army, a dozen-odd interested manufacturers, and certain members of Congress are beating the drums for immediate "limited" production of the Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile (now scraping along on a $302 million research and development allowance). Such big guns as Douglas Aircraft's Donald Douglas Jr. have been volleying around Washington, and recent issues of Army and Missiles and Rockets magazines are almost entirely given over to articles, editorials and ads praising Nike-Zeus and urging its production ("We could sleep better"). The Kennedy Administration shows no signs of being hurried into a decision before the basic Nike...