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...former New Yorker, the only thing I miss in that maze of people, subways and cars is Macy's. The best place to spend a rainy Saturday was always in the Herald Square store, where I never left without at least one overflowing shopping bag stuffed with goodies...
...Viet Cong force had long since departed. Villagers who survived the harsh pre-assault bombardment by government forces shakily reported that the Communists had pulled out three days earlier. A few, at least, stuck around, as the South Vietnamese learned to their dismay later in the week. Recombing a maze of tunnels in Boi Loi forest, army patrols suddenly found themselves under accurate but sporadic machine-gun fire. Ten Vietnamese soldiers died, and a helicopter carrying wounded away was knocked down, killing eleven more. History's hugest helicopter operation netted only two confirmed Communist guerrillas, three rifles, 15 grenades...
Hopeful Strategy. With the backing of the American Civil Liberties Union, a young member of Dean Acheson's law firm named Peter Hutt is determined to find an escape from this maze by getting an appellate court to rule (as the Supreme Court did in 1962 regarding narcotics addicts) that it is unconstitutional to jail victims of a "disease' over which they have no control. As Hutt sees it, this might force Congres; to provide decent treatment facilities Unhappily for Hutt, Washington's Assistant Corporation Counsel Clark F. King believes that Congress will fail...
...society become to the nuclear concept that in recent years, the danger of a holocaust has turned into a comfortable, abstract improbability. Your cover article [Sept. 25] may awaken the minds of those who have let partisanship rise above an awesome problem. The nuclear issue has turned into a maze of contradictions and evasions, thanks to those who have thrown it where it should have never been in the first place: in politics...
...Thousand. New Hampshire's Lottery Commission had to egg-walk its way through a maze of federal rules and regulations designed to make a state lottery all but impossible. As chief egg walker they sagaciously chose a pillar of probity-ex-FBI Agent Edward J. Powers, 51, who helped break Boston's famed Brinks robbery. So far, Sweepstakes Chief Powers has well earned his $20,000 salary...