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...more than 100,000 separate actions against the Viet Cong. They have increased their kill ratio over the Viet Cong to as high as 8 to 1 and have killed or captured a total of 15,000 Communists-a high for any American unit. In what they call their "Kit Carson Program," the Marines often use Viet Cong defectors as scouts, paying them $41 a month. "They point out the guy we'd been walking right past for so long," says Colonel Donald Mallory, 50, commander of the 5,000-man 1st Marine Regiment. The scouts frequently enable...
...garish apparition indeed. He twists his scarlet mouth into an obsequious leer as he whines the lyrics of Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome. The character has no name, no dialogue. But in Joel Grey's insinuating performance, the sleazy, empty-souled, fanny-grabbing emcee of Berlin's Kit Kat Klub is not only the glue that holds the musical together but also the embodiment of a nation's depravity during the black dawn of the Nazis...
...outside a long house built on stilts, a twelve-year-old girl in shock from diarrhea and vomiting. "Her father and brothers were so sure she was going to die," Dr. Smith recalls, "that they were hollowing out a log for her casket." Dr. Smith pulled out her infusion kit, hung a bottle from a bamboo overhead, and stayed up all night dripping fluids into the girl's veins...
...face-a composite of 20 Congressional Medal of Honor winners-is instantly recognized in at least 10 million American homes. Launched over three years ago by Hassenfeld Bros, of Pawtucket, R.I., he has 21 movable parts that enable him to salute smartly, grasp the fork of a tiny mess kit with ease, crouch in a foxhole or squeeze into a Jeep. "He's like a real person," said Chicago's Jon Anderson, 5. And while some fathers worry that doll-playing is "sissy," others find Joe "real gutsy." Asks one mother: "How else can a child go deep...
CABARET. Onto the sleazy canvas of a 1930 Berlin nightspot, the Kit Kat Klub, this musical squeezes the borrowed pigments of bloatedly satiric George Grosz cartoons, Brecht-Weillschmerz, and the black-gartered cinemantics of the Dietrich of The Blue Angel. A whale of a production but a minnow of a show...