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Surrounded by a high, spiked fence and a 20-ft.-wide defense perimeter bristling with punji stakes, the one-acre compound consists of five grass-and-straw huts, a camouflaged lookout tower, a well, a shaded hammock for the village chief. A dozen "Viet Cong" defenders-infantry troops who have completed their training and are awaiting assignment to Viet Nam-wear black pajamas and conical peasant hats. Underneath the village snakes a maze of tunnels that connect each hut to a passageway leading under the village wall. When the trainees attack, some villagers usually slip into the tunnels...
...point Charles C. Vines Jr. '6C and Peter N. Mear '66 came to Harnett's aid. A struggle ensued during which Vines and Mear were stabbed by the other two youths who had joined the fight. All three youths escaped along with a fourth who was acting as a lookout and a fifth who was waiting in a parked car on DeWolfe Street...
Mear explained last night that he and Vines had been unable to identify the second suspect. "He could have been the lookout man," Mear said...
...Colony, he says, can be worse. Best in the city, he insists, is Henri Soulé's Le Pavilion, followed by Joe Kennedy's favorite, La Caravelle. But the man from the Times has a taste that is nothing if not eclectic. He is always on the lookout for a good bowl of chili or a tasty batch of delicatessen chopped liver. And, for his money, the Chock Full O' Nuts sandwich chain rates high indeed-although he reports sadly that during the past two years its frankfurters have gone into a decline...
...express the determined U.S. presence in a painting. For five days, he hopped from Bien Hoa to Nha Trang, Cam Ranh Bay, Qui Nhon and An Khe. "Fantastic! Marvelous!" he would exclaim, using his two favorite words as he moved from base installation to command post to hill lookout sketching all the while. At one point a helicopter almost landed on half a dozen of his drawings spread out on the grass. "Please, please!" Koerner shouted at the whirling chopper Save my drawings...