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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...June, the North Vietnamese completely surrounded Ben Het and cut off virtually all ground access to it. Though ammunition remained plentiful, Ben Het's defenders suffered from a lack of fresh water and hot food. They also suffered from the lack of an on-the-spot commander. Directing the battle from his headquarters at Kontum, 30 miles southeast of Ben Het, Lien rarely flew into the besieged outpost. As a result, he was unable to make the most effective use of the massive U.S. air power and artillery that were put at his disposal. Communications between the various defending...
Poisonous Broth. More widespread than radioactive fallout, DDT is found in every kind of aquatic life and in almost every animal. Even mother's milk exhibits traces of DDT two or three times as high as the maximum standard for cow's milk set by the Food and Drug Administration. In any other container, a current quip has it, mother's milk would be prohibited from crossing state lines...
Despite its resistance to water, DDT is easily soluble in fats and highly susceptible to "biological magnification" as it makes its way up the food chain. A typical case of this kind of metabolic mayhem occurred in Long Island Sound. After some mosquito-infested marshes were sprayed, the DDT was found in the nearby water in a "safe" concentration of .000003 parts per million. Nonetheless, the DDT quickly accumulated in more concentrated form...
...collegian, the grandson of Russian immigrants and the son of an office manager in a tomato-processing plant. He had no sooner arrived at Brown from Lawrence (N.Y.) High School than he began shaking up the university. As a freshman, he persuaded the university administration to abolish the unpopular food-contract system, which forced his classmates to pay an annual rate covering all meals. As a sophomore, he organized a seminar to study curriculum reform. It was so successful that he was paid $800 from the dean's special fund to spend a summer writing up the seminar...
...trade talks last December, the Japanese were so uncooperative that the negotiations almost broke down. Out of dozens of items on the list for discussion, the Japanese agreed to liberalize imports of only chewing gum and pet food. In April, Japan eased restrictions on seven other items, but most were products as insignificant as boiled pig entrails. A veteran U.S. businessman in Japan explained with annoyance: "They said one day, 'Now you can make radios.' But when you read the fine print, it turned out that you couldn't bring in parts. You couldn't even...