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...June 27, Major General J. Lawton Collins' VII Corps captured Cherbourg (after the besieged Germans had destroyed most of the port facilities), but the Americans remained just as penned in as the British. More than 1 million men now appeared stalemated on a front of no more than 100 miles, and while neither side could win a decisive advantage in the swampy and hedgerowed terrain, both suffered heavy losses. "We were stuck," said Corporal Bill Preston of the 743rd Tank Battalion. "Something dreadful seemed to have happened in terms of the overall plan...
...become an obligatory stop for visiting U.S. Congressmen wanting to see how U.S. aid is being administered there. So when a delegation from the Senate Budget and Appropriations committees arrived in Honduras last Wednesday, the camp was naturally on their itinerary. Senators J. Bennett Johnston (D., La.) and Lawton Chiles (D., Fla.), seven other passengers and six crew members boarded two unarmed UH-1H helicopters at a Honduran air force base; Johnston and Chiles rode in the same vehicle. But as they approached Colomoncagua, their carefully scripted tour rapidly went awry...
...Sales are booming," Gary Lawton, sales manager for the University Press, said this week. Forty thousand copies of the book have been sold since it was released February 20. The fifth printing is now in progress and will bring the total number of copies in print to 70,000. Lawton added. He estimated that 100,000 copies will eventually be sold...
...Lawton attributed the book's popularity to Welty's large following and to the favorable reviews the book has received...
Reimbursement rates will be adjusted annually to reflect inflation and medical advances, and will vary regionally to accommodate the higher costs of running hospitals in urban areas. (The rate for a simple appendectomy in Chicago: $3,825; the same operation in Lawton, Okla.: $2,773.) Psychiatric hospitals, long-term care facilities and rehabilitation centers are exempt from the new regulations. So are hospitals in Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts, which have their own cost-containment programs...