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Once they get there, the G.I.s of the future will use many techniques and devices developed from the military's experience in Viet Nam. The Army's Limited War Laboratory has already shipped 22 projects to Viet Nam for evaluation-from leech repellent to treetop landing pads-and is currently working on 85 more. More important, the U.S. will need to put into practice the sad lessons of Viet Nam. To stop trouble before it reaches the big shooting stage, it will have to learn the art of pacification better than it has. The U.S. will need...
...happen. Last week, in a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal, some 519 businessmen crawled out of the woodwork and endorsed Barry Goldwater for President. Unlike the Johnson businessmen whom they view as a leech on the body politic sustaining themselves by their "vital interest in continued big government," the 519 claimed that their success was based, predictably enough, on "free enterprise...
...Like his three brothers, Jack legally changed his surname to Ruby. In 1949 he went to Dallas to help out a sister who was running a two-bit nightclub. He played bartender for a while and then took over management of the Carousel. He clung to newsmen like a leech, begging often for free publicity...
...first four now being mailed out indicate the kind of choice we have made: The American Character, by D. W. Brogan; The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene; Reveille in Washington, by Margaret Leech, and The Worldly Philosophers, by Robert L. Heilbroner. In addition to a positioning preface by the editors of TIME, often as not we hope to incorporate a specially written introduction by a critic or authority in the field, or by the author himself...
...spent their first night atop a jungle ant heap. "The ants had only one idea," says Nagle. "They were ferocious. They wanted to eat you alive." The second night was spent on a coffee-table-sized ledge leaning across a jungle river. Icy water sprayed Nagle all night, and leeches swarmed over him. One leech began crawling up Nagle's leg. "I knew I had to stop it," he said. "But I didn't dare move quickly for fear of falling off the ledge or knocking another...