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Glowing Red. The main battalion force soon had an even larger tragedy on its hands. At dawn, two platoons of C Company manning X Ray's southeast corner fanned out on patrol. The Communists cunningly sniped and retreated ahead of them, then sprang an ambush from the flanks and rear. Simultaneously a direct Red onslaught smashed head-on at the main ¶Company positions back at the landing zone, diverting both attention and possible aid to the two trapped platoons. Both were virtually annihilated. When relief forces arrived, they found several G.I.s who had been taken prisoner, later shot...
...miles from Hanoi, the closest strike yet to the Red capital. For the first time, American aircraft last week lashed out at the vital communications link between Hanoi and Haiphong, loosing 49 tons of bombs on a rail and highway bridge. In two other missions, they blasted the main railway and the main highway running northeast from Hanoi to China...
Last week the court reversed a Shuttlesworth criminal conviction for the fifth time, a record that all but makes him a one-man constitutional textbook. Main chapters...
Brown's main work is running. And that is work enough. Pro football today is dominated by thread-needle quarterbacks and jitterbug ends-except on the Cleveland Browns. About half of all offensive plays in the pros are passes. But on the Browns, 60% are running plays, and Jimmy Brown carries the ball on 62% of them-an average of 20-odd plays per game, Sunday in and Sunday out. The best passer in the game can be replaced; Baltimore's Gary Cuozzo demonstrated that last week when he took over for the injured Johnny Unitas and threw...
...problem is that only about 10% of the facilities of Japan's ten biggest spinners consists of up-to-date, mechanized equipment. The main obstacle to modernization: as profits shrink, companies are finding it increasingly difficult to shoulder the high costs of automating their plants. Many are turning to synthetics, but in doing so must compete against the greater experience and entrenched position of existing synthetic-fiber producers...