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...invaluable harbinger whose projections vitally affect the entire U.S., the budget tells businessmen how much the Government may be expected to buy from them, taxpayers how much it will take from them to do the buying with. Within its labyrinth are enough booby traps to bedevil an army of certified public accountants, enough opportunities for sleight of hand to exhaust a prestidigitator. The budget gives the impression of disclosing what everything costs, right down to the last G51 clerk ($3,507), but it carefully conceals such strategic particulars as the spending of the Central Intelligence Agency (estimated to be about...
...Labyrinth. The first book requires a child to look at a drawing, then answer such questions as "Am I an ant?" or to circle the right word in distinguishing between mat and man. New letters are introduced, and by Book 7 he can handle such words as sandwich, haystack and yesterday. Each step requires the child to either make a yes-no choice, select the words to complete a sentence, or fill in a blank in a sentence. By Book 21 he has been introduced to all the toughest exceptions to the phonetic rules of English. His reading vocabulary totals...
...connected with another by concrete trap doors, linked to the forest floor above by intricate air vents and concrete cover plates. On one plate, its architect had proudly scratched "1962" in the setting concrete. Choppers worked overtime ferrying in explosives as the allies systematically explored-and then destroyed-the labyrinth. Among its contents: four truckloads of enemy maps, documents and training pamphlets, a typewriter, tons of rice, stacks of still cosmolined .50-cal. machine guns rigged with antiaircraft sights, and even Western pinup pictures. So extensive was the haul that Saigon suspected it might have captured the Viet Cong headquarters...
Elephants & Trucks. Since 1959, the 800-mile labyrinth of jungle tracks, muddy rivers and bamboo way stations within Laotian territory has been the major route south for some 45,000 Communist infiltrators heading to battle in South Viet Nam. This, despite North Viet Nam's solemn signature on the 1962 Geneva accord guaranteeing Laos' neutrality and barring foreign troops from Laotian soil. The infiltration now comes to an estimated 4,500 bo dot (regular infantrymen) a month. More than one third of the "trail" has been converted into broad-shouldered, two-lane dirt highways. Truck convoys move...
...least. Rehabilitation consists of encouraging people to improve their own houses with the aid of bank loans insured by the Federal Housing Authority and, thanks to 1964 legislation, some direct federal loans. The process itself is lengthy. As one observer said, "The FHA places each request in a bureaucratic labyrinth so involved that approval come only after endless delay." Despite much local prodding, banks and, to a lesser extent, the government still remain reluctant to grant loans to low-income families...