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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sending more of its own people into Viet Nam, the U.S. will also do more to help the South Vietnamese help themselves. Returning from Hawaii, Defense Secretary McNamara announced that military aid funds to South Viet Nam will be upped from $207 million to $330 million this year; the main idea is to increase South Viet Nam's 575,000-man military establishment by as many...
...happen to you." They didn't. Though wave upon wave of U.S. fighter-bombers swept in before the attack with bombs and rockets, the weather turned bad for air support when the assault actually began. By midday, the attack force had reached the Viet Cong's main line of resistance-a low mudbank at the far side of open paddyfields affording a clear field of fire to the enemy...
...More Grinding. Wheeler finally got the wounded American officer out, and though U.S. sources later described the retreat from Viet An as "a break from contact" with the Viet Cong, it was clearly a bug out. The main reason was simply that the Vietnamese soldiers had been in steady action for more than a year with hardly a break. Even with the artillery and air support that was lacking at critical moments in Viet An, troops so weary could hardly be expected to perform with skill in the grinding day-in-day-out war. The only sure cure for battle...
...heat held at M.I.T., Crimson ace Time Prince won eight out of ten races. In one race he lost his main sheet and dropped to second place as he sailed the windward leg re-threading the sheet. He regained his lead on the leeward leg, however, and finished first despite the mishap...
...although I would prefer a shade more restraint in the main characters, I have no such quarrel with the supporting performances. Between them Victoria Weyler, Ronald Witt, Bill Christian, Alzada Knickerbocker, and Belford Lawson take care of the other eighteen parts very nicely indeed. Each one of them does at least one really good role. And Mr. Johnson redeems himself as Warty Bliggans, the toad who believes that "the earth exists to grow toadstools for me to sit under...