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...Many Gooks. In a search-and-destroy mission in la Drang Valley, within sight of the Cambodian border, an American unit last week ran headlong into a powerful force of just such men, the freshly infiltrated 101C North Vietnamese Regiment. Once again, la Drang became "the Valley of Death"-though the battle was on a far smaller scale. Lured into an ambush when they pursued a small group of Communist troops that they had sighted, two platoons of the 1st Cavalry (Airmobile), the division that inflicted last year's la Drang defeat on the Communists, were heavily outnumbered...
Around the middle of every November, the earth is involved in a headlong collision; it plows full tilt into a stream of meteoroids that heat into shooting stars as they plunge through the upper atmosphere. Most years, hardly anyone notices. Only astronomers and dedicated amateurs take note of the few brief, blazing arcs that make up the "Leonid showers," named for the constellation Leo, which appears behind them in the sky. This week the celestial fireworks promise to be far more gaudy than usual. Instead of half a dozen or so meteors per hour, the count in the early morning...
...week's end it seemed unlikely that the President would call a post-election special session, mainly in order to put through the tax increase that he is anxious to postpone until after the election, and it was probable that the 89th would somehow charge hell-bent and headlong through most of its remaining business and adjourn around Oct. 20. To that end, the Congress frantically slammed through several major bills last week. Among them...
Jane Fonda didn't need the Hotel Tahiti to convince anyone else that she'd made it big, but maybe it helped persuade her. At 28, after a headlong decade of public vocalizing about the difficulty of being a famous actor's unfamous offspring, Henry Fonda's daughter has established herself on her own as one of the world's most sought-after film actresses. No fewer than three completed movies starring her will be released in the next six months: La Curee, directed by her husband, Roger Vadim; Any Wednesday, the screen version...
...previous medical phenomenon has ever quite matched the headlong U.S. rush to use the oral contraceptives now universally known as "the pills." An estimated 5,000,000 American women now take them; and, as a special advisory committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said: "Never have so many people taken such potent drugs voluntarily over such a protracted period for an objective other than the control of disease...