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...collection, telephones and electrical facilities are overtaxed to the point of collapse. Saigon's bankrupt bus system stopped operating last year. Danang lacks sewers and garbage disposal; its water supply is contaminated. All the cities have vast slum areas. Adequate housing remains critically short, especially in Saigon and Hue, which suffered heavily in the Communists' 1968 Tet offensive against the cities. Medical care lags far behind demand...
...temperature ranges. But color can be added with the use of appropriately positioned filters. Whenever there is a sufficient change in heat intensity, a different color filter pops in front of the thermograph's internal light bulb. The resulting flickerings are then recorded on color film, with each hue representing a different temperature range. Colors are arbitrarily selected. Warmest areas are represented by shades of red and orange. Medium temperatures come out in yellow and green, while the coldest spots are violet, blue and black. The advantage of a color thermogram over black and white is that most people...
Anna and Bonnie. Style, it developed, did not have to filter down to the streets: it might just as easily, and did, start there. The hue and cry for custom clothes, at full pitch only five years ago, has become a whisper in the stores. Says Bonwit Teller President William Fine: "The line-for-line derby is not consistent with the changing times and mood of the consumer." Saks Fifth Avenue, Macy's and Alexander's have dropped their import copies. Lord & Taylor plans to continue its reproductions in different fabrics. But the only Manhattan department store still...
Hanoi's Paris negotiators seized on the accounts and, during negotiations last week, condemned the "penitentiary regime" in Con Son. The Communists did not mention that North Viet Nam has few if any political prisoners be cause most enemies are simply exterminated, as at Hue in 1968. In Geneva, the International Commission of Jurists called for an investigation, and Saigon lost little time in sending a ten-man team to the island...
...surely cannot be clearer than it is now that this war which brings us the civilian massacres at Ben Tre and My Lai, the destruction of the historic city of Hue, and the death of countless fighting men, including 42,000 Americans, is a horrendous error. This war is not for the benefit of North Vietnam, South Vietnam, or the United States: it is detrimental...