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During the recent North Vietnamese advance on Kontum, two American Army advisers were ordered to pull out of nearby Fire Base 5, even though it had not been directly attacked. They simply left behind the base's garrison of 130 Montagnard tribesmen, who have long been among the hardiest and most determined troops on the allied side...
...advertising's hardiest conceits is that its TV commercials are better than the programs they punctuate. Trouble is, so many commercials are punctuating home-screen viewing these days that the messages blur into one another and are often lost. Now a Pittsburgh-based ad agency, Ketchum, MacLeod & Grove, thinks that it has found a way around the get-lost problem. To grab more attention for a bank in the Houston area, the agency is running the first commercials for commercials...
...will be tested on living cells, including those taken from fish and from a human cancer. Other particles will be fed to a variety of earth life, such as Japanese quail, algae, sunflowers, pine seedlings, oysters, white mice and cockroaches?the last chosen because they are one of the hardiest insects known to man, having survived as a distinct genus for millions of years. All the organisms involved were painstakingly bred and raised in germ-free conditions. The mice, for example, were born by caesarean section in sterile surgery and raised in a sterile environment...
Most enthusiasts are now experiencing the thrill of returning to the great outdoors. The inefficiency of Cambridge snow removal delays this exodus to the wholesome fresh air, but the hardiest are only too happy to jump puddles and plow through occasional piles of snow. The sidewalks beside the river fill, and the anticipation is unbearable...
...Even the hardiest CRIMSON editors usually manage to leave the newsroom on Saturday night. But we always try to stay on top of the news, and sometimes the news can't wait for the next regular issue. And so when the Radcliffe Council started talking about merger on Saturday afternoon, a handful of editors started working on an extra on Saturday night. By Sunday morning they were exhausted, but the extra was there to tell you what happened...