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...room, the once-cocksure Viet Cong found themselves choking in a new kind of war. Their massive mon soon assaults never materialized-be cause quick-scrambling allied planes all too often flew off through the rainstorms to blast a company apart before it could attack. Whereas in the first flush of their summer successes the Reds could count on an eye for an eye, by August the kill ratio had dropped to 1 to 3 against them-and they are likely to lose 27,000 men in action this year against an estimated 12,000 for the allies (including...
...into an area recently "cleared," and so this time the allies were double-checking with lethal thoroughness. Twice B-52s from Guam pounded the Triangle's rain forest and rubber trees. When the Airborne moved in, they carried tear gas-to protect the innocent as well as to flush the V.C. out of their tunnels-and promptly used it. Recently added to the U.S. military's growing armory of sophisticated anti-insurgent weaponry: the "Mighty Mite," a 50-lb. blower used in home fumigation Stateside, and able to pump the harmless gas into tunnels at 180 m.p.h...
...this century, New Yorkers could get a glass of water in a restaurant only if they specifically asked for it. Residents were forbidden (on pain of fines) to water lawns or gardens, wash cars, turn on fountains. In Manhattan men's rooms, signs cautioned: DON'T FLUSH FOR EVERYTHING...
Battalions of workers struggled to plant trees, lay pavement, erect lamp posts. Air-conditioning and simultaneous-translation equipment was installed but not hooked up. Toilets refused to flush. Generators stood uncrated in the sand. At least ten of 65 new villas for visiting chiefs of state had no walls. To add to the confusion at "Shambles-onSea," as newsmen dubbed Des Pins, the multimillion-dollar conference hall at week's end was ripped by a violent explosion-presumably the work of anti-government terrorists...
...Furniture. Two-thirds of these sales are earned by Samsonite's familiar, streamlined luggage, which is recognized, used and often inadvertently exchanged by travelers around the world. Its dent-proof magnesium frame, flush snap locks, and a plastic skin that can withstand everything from the -50° F, cold in an airliner's cargo compartment to the rough treatment of baggage handlers, have lifted luggage sales almost beyond Samsonite's capacity. The company has placed its 13-acre Denver luggage plant on a seven-day, round-the-clock schedule, is actively scouting sites for three additional plants...