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...There I was, mushing around in the Central Highlands counting Viet Cong dead," said the paratroop captain. "I was the grubbiest man alive. Bad. Really bad. After two days of no sleep I went back to camp and sacked out on an air mattress in the mud." Then came a voice telling him to get up and go to Saigon to take care of Miss America. Not bad for a dream. Even better as the real McCoy. So U.S. Army Captain Frank Lennon, 25, a West Pointer and a gentleman, scraped off the mud and flew to Saigon...
...trouble. In Bethlehem, 40 suspected members of El Fatah, the. Syrian-trained terrorist organization, were arrested as they met in a cafe. And throughout the new terri tories, Israeli soldiers continued their house-to-house search for arms. If so much as a pistol is found under a mattress, the soldiers clear out the inhabitants and coolly dynamite the offending house to smithereens...
...smouldering wet mattress poked out the window and then dropped to the steps below. A fireman stuck out his head, yelled, "Hey, did I hit anybody?" and then tossed out a chair cushion...
...fire apparently started when a cigarette left on a stuffed chair in room G-41 set the upholstery ablaze at about 9:15 p.m. No one was in the room at the time, and the fire spread to a foam-rubber mattress a few feet away...
...small from the burning mattress alerted people on the floor who sounded the entry fire alarm. A. Mark Mazer '69. one of the occupants of the room, came out of the adjoining suite to sce smoke pouring from under his door...