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About 33,000 U.S. Army and Marine Corps men are serving as ground troops in South Viet Nam. The Marines want to increase their 8,000-man force at Danang and Hue to some 30,000, and they are likely to get their wish before the year is out. Also available and being considered for use in Viet Nam is the Army's 25th Division, now in Hawaii...
...leading consumer product in volume of sales, and the clutch of future orders has already backlogged. What's more, the American Research Bureau reports that in color-equipped homes, NBC flays the opposition with every tinted offering. All of which, of course, explains the ecstatic cry over hue...
...strikes to the North mounted in fury last week, the Viet Cong were moving closer and closer to control of the whole top third of South Viet Nam. An atmosphere of siege prevailed in Hue, South Viet Nam's third largest city, where the population dared not leave the city limits. From Quinhon to the 17th parallel, the countryside swarmed with cocky Viet Cong units-some operating in battalion and regiment strength, many now openly wearing olive-drab uniforms and fatigue hats rather than the civilian-style black "pajamas" that once gave them military invisibility...
...barefaced racial discrimination," warned that it would do serious damage to Britain's relations with its Commonwealth partners. Speaker after speaker rose to support him, protesting that the legislation struck at the roots of Britain's traditional tolerance toward visitors and residents of any creed or hue...
Sing Along with Gongs. In villages threatened by the advancing Viet Cong, Addiss and Crofut had to sing to a constantly shifting audience, a kind of music to flee by. The duo played in the imperial city of Hue and raised $1,400 for the nearly 1,000,000 homeless flood victims. In one remote mountain vil lage, their performance ended up in a woolly hootenanny with the loinclothed montagnard tribesmen chanting and playing along on gongs and flute. Faced by antagonistic students ready to argue politics, Addiss and Crofut always retreated to song. "As soon as they realized that...