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...army of homeless refugees created by the onslaught. Viet Nam Christian Service, supported by Lutheran World Relief, the Mennonites and Church World Service, has assumed responsibility for refugee relief in a number of areas, including Gia Dinh, a suburb of Saigon; often braving Communist fire, service volunteers have scrounged lumber to rebuild homes, hauled food, water and sleeping mats to refugee camps. Catholic Relief Services is now attempting to house and feed 87,000 new refugees in 27 centers...
...caution you: the critic, a poor lumber-jack indeed, may lose the forest and the trees in this chase after the shadows of feeling which the movie stirs, the darker caverns and corridors of the mind. Don't get boxed in or out. Desire demands that you display agility, make your own leaps from what is shown to what is suggested. How much you discover depends on your participation in the art, ultimately on the dimensions of your memories, experience and imagination...
...well-to-do land-owning family, large, patriarchal. My grandfather had 24 people in his household at one time. My father's family was more in the businessman's style, small merchants. In Italy, my father had a sort of little business, leasing forests for wood to use for lumber and coal. But then the coal industry got bad 'cause of gas being used. So his business went dead. Instead of starting another business he came to the States, when I was ten. Here he was only qualified to be a working class man, not knowing any English...
...surrounded Marines at Khe Sanh, life is dreary days of digging deeper in their trenches and bunkers, ducking incoming fire, and cleaning and recleaning the M-16 rifles they expect to use against the NVA's 304th and 325-C Divisions. "Mortar bait!" they scream as big transports lumber onto the metal runway. Then they dart into bunkers, knowing that the planes usually attract "incoming." The Marines just sit and wait to be attacked, primarily because seeking out the enemy could cost more lives and casualty-consciousness has been drummed into every commander. The fact that they...
...barns disappear, big lumber companies are rough-sawing plywood and mahogany siding to give a textured look. Even synthetic barn boards are on the way. The Abitibi Corp. recently brought out a hardboard paneling called "Barnboard," and, says an executive, "it's one of our biggest sellers. We're moving 3,000,000 ft. per month." Armstrong Cork has just put on the market its "Sturbridge paneling," made of compressed wood fibers, which is embossed by molds made from antique barn siding and is practically indistinguishable from the real thing...