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Intelligence officers ticked off indications of a major Communist buildup, including a flood of supplies in the Laotian pipeline. According to the briefers, 90% of the materiel earmarked for South Viet Nam was being shunted into I Corps. The buildup obviously presaged trouble in the coastal cities of Hue and Danang. But MACV asserted that it also posed a "serious threat" to U.S. troop withdrawals and that a "preemptive offensive" was planned with "limited objectives." Few reporters in Saigon doubted that the jargon was a verbal screen for a direct ARVN assault on the Ho Chi Minh Trail...
February 1953: Jean-Bedel Bokassa, a sergeant in the French army in Indochina, bids a reluctant goodbye to his two-month-old daughter Martine and her Vietnamese mother, Nguyen Thi Hue and goes home to Central Africa...
...funny to me that in your hue and cry over the decline of the family [Dec. 28] you didn't cite more alternatives. For instance, marriage is rough, but being unattached is miserable; motherhood is tiring, but childlessness is boring and has no future; being a "nuclear" or isolated family unit is pressure-causing but draws on unseen potential; and most important, that religion is the hope of mankind. Why else would we poor slobs slave away in deference to "the long run" except because it's right...
...characterized by blandness and the avoidance of extremes. Says Winick: "Light from her cigar may provide the only brightness" on modern woman's "barely there" face. Houses are becoming sexless: they contain few leather club chairs or boudoir chairs-or even boudoirs. In interior decoration, the most popular hue is a noncolor, beige. Names too are sexually equivocal; one child out of five has a name like Robin or Leslie or Dana...
...same area where the previous survey had been made. The results, they report in Nature, are "very highly significant." Of the 972 specimens collected, 25 were of the speckled variety, a clear indication that the peppered moth is again in the process of changing its hue...