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...Viet Cong troops had not simply evaporated. Obeying Mao's first maxim, hundreds took shelter in the elaborate maze of tunnels that the Reds have dug in many parts of Zone D. Then, in line with Mao's second rule for terrorists, the Viet Cong promptly attacked the government's defensive outposts on the periphery of Zone D. Guns blazing, battalion-sized Red units simultaneously mauled three villages, inflicting severe casualties before disappearing into the surrounding rubber plantations at dawn's light...
...most impressive feat of Mr. Gill's work at Harvard did not concern the problems of shepherding individual students through the maze of requirements and restrictions which impedes their progress toward a degree. Rather, it was to supply much of the initiative for a rather fundamental revision in the College's tutorial programs...
...Coca-Cola and Buick and has increased its worldwide billings 600% to $371 million last year-second only to Thompson. An Oklahoman who went to Andover and Yale, Harper is an inveterate theorist who has become the most cussed and discussed man in advertising by expanding McCann into a maze of separate companies, each designed to offer advertisers a different kind of communications or advertising service. So far, Harper's costly expansion program has left McCann with small profit, but his competitors still keep a nervous eye on the thrusting man who begins each...
...Subcommittee, chaired by Arkansas' implacable old John McClellan, began its long-awaited probe into the affairs of Billie Sol Estes-and, to be sure, Billie Sol's name got mentioned a few times. But top billing in the first days' hearings was bestowed on the bureaucratic maze of the Agriculture Department...
Spain is still painfully backward and depressed. On the edge of Madrid, the gritty Puente de Vallecas district is called "Little Russia" by its occupants-street cleaners, ditchdiggers and the like, who earn as little as 60? a day and live in a smelly maze of shacks. Beyond, in the open country, are the peasants who work the huge holdings of absentee landlords for a pittance; in Spain, one-hundredth of the population still owns half of the land. Five million Spanish peasants use no mechanized farm tools at all; as they helped bring in the harvest last week, they...