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Death Valley. Despite the advantages they enjoy over Dienbienphu's doomed defenders, the Marines involved in the Con Thien Sitzkrieg are in something less than an enviable position. The 100 or so Communist guns that are trained on them with lethal accuracy are difficult to spot and almost impossible to wipe out except by direct hits. With ranges of up to 18 miles and guns as big as 152-mm. "bunker crackers," enemy ordnance plasters the Marine outposts almost at will. By firing only a few rounds and then quickly moving their artillery pieces or hiding them-in bunkers...
Once considered unbeatable. Buckpasser was soundly defeated in the Brooklyn Handicap by Handsome Boy. But Handsome Boy had a 20-pound weight advantage in that race which he will not enjoy under the weight-for-age conditions of the Woodward: both will cary 126 pounds...
...Your Essay has left me a broken man. I am a 45-year-old bachelor. I write books for a living, reside in a cozy cabin near a rural trout stream, have a wonderful platonic relationship with a divorcee who lives down the road, and enjoy occasional outside dates. For years, I have believed that I was enjoying a state of contentment that is rare on this earth-and that I was presenting an enviable public image. Now, with lightning suddenness, I learn that I am nothing but a psychopath and an object of public pity. Melancholy has gripped...
Some 11,000 Detroit teachers, including 6,400 members of the American Federation of Teachers, will get raises of $850 annually for two years, work one week less a year, enjoy a bigger voice in textbook selection and curriculum changes. They also won a 30-child limit on class size in the first three grades of ghetto schools and a 39-student limit in all other classes. Unhappy school-board members could only shrug their shoulders when asked where most of the $18.7 million for pay raises will come from, nod hopefully toward the state legislature...
Although he claims not to enjoy all the publicity, Shurcliff has developed a sure public relations touch. When Transportation Secretary Alan Boyd announced that transcontinental SST's might fly subsonic over the populated eastern half of the country and then supersonic from Chicago to Califor- nia, Shurcliff immediately wrote to western political leaders pointing out how little the SST's proponents seemed to care for the west's peace and quiet...