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News from Detroit last week could best be described as two-tone. The darker hue was painted by General Motors: the world's largest automaker reported that first-quarter sales were off 15% from last year to $4.85 billion. Earnings as a result slipped 34.5% to $389.6 million, the poorest first-quarter profit for G.M. in five years. Balancing all that, however, were brighter prospects for the auto industry as a whole. Braced by an unexpectedly strong upturn in sales during April, auto companies have revised their production schedules for the second quarter. Altogether, 2,155,000 cars will...
...Corps (called "eye" corps) is the most nettlesome of South Viet Nam's four tactical combat zones. The closest to North Viet Nam, it has always been easiest for Hanoi to infiltrate, keep supplied-and influence. Its citizens are chiefly Annamese; they once ruled Viet Nam from Hue, were among the earliest supporters of the Viet Minh against the French and make a fetish of xenophobia. The Imperial City of Hué is Viet Nam's capital of discontent. Despite the efforts of Walt's 73,000 Marines, much of I Corps remains pro-Viet Cong...
...Marines and the Vietnamese were digging in as for a siege, piling sandbags higher, gouging out foxholes, setting up mines and barbed wire-all on the prudent assumption that the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese would soon assault the city again. Similar unease prevailed in Hue, where the Viet Cong radio promised an attack soon. Premier Ky, who flew to Quang Tri to inspect the damage of the first raid, came up with his own solution to the province's troubles. It included the possible evacuation of the entire civilian population and the creation of a bulldozed, mined...
...devouring the scores of Don Giovanni, Die Walkure and Pelleas et Melisande. He conceived a lifelong fascination with "all things mysterious and marvelous," and found that musical sounds gave him inner visions of colors; once, he got a stomach ache while watching a ballet because the violet hue of the lighting clashed so badly with the tonality of G major...
...apparently convinced his colleagues that their report should be blunt in its criticisms -- not only of Vietnamese education but also of specific American decisions. One such decision was a recent order from the embassy in Saigon to cut off aid to the University of Hue because some students and faculty members had sacked a U.S. library there...