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...weeks ago a highland district reform commissioner suddenly declared afectada (destined for expropriation) one of the most efficient ranch operations in the country: 440,000 acres owned by Cerro de Pasco Co., Peru's copper giant. Cerro officials reacted first with disbelief, then outrage when government officials refused to reconsider. In bypassing scores of marginally operated highland estates, said Cerro, the government had violated the spirit, if not the precise letter, of its own law. The company pointed out that its sheep produce three times as much meat as the neighboring Indian herds; furthermore, it ran the ranch...
...thousands each week, U.S. fighting men swarmed into Viet Nam (total at the end of last week: 128,000), first to relieve the pressure on Vietnamese troops, then to go aggressively hunting and killing the enemy on their own from the Mekong Delta to the Viet Cong's highland sanctuaries. Phase 3 died aborning, because wherever two or three V.C. companies tried to gather, Allied planes were soon on the scene-and often enough with helilifted Allied troops not far behind...
Doing the Mekes. Producer of the tattoo* is retired Brigadier Alasdair MacLean of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, who still wears his tartan trews and Glengarry cap, clings to his silver-topped swagger stick ("I'm sort of superstitious about the damned thing"). As reinforcements for his North American campaign, MacLean has added 18 feather-footed British Columbia Highland Lassies (all daughters of Canadian servicemen) and for Manhattan, 57 Fiji islanders, representing more than one-third of the crown colony's present army. Mostly muscular six-footers as tall as their names (like Lance Corporal...
...HIGHLAND PARK, ILL., Tenthouse Theater: Margaret Whiting and Gene Rayburn on the Gypsy caravan...
...Highland Park...