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...lost more than 2,000 men since the ground war resumed last month, the Communists were less anxious last week to stand and fight. The elusive nature of the enemy has rarely been better demonstrated than in the U.S.-led assault on War Zone C, a 1,000-sq.-mi. pocket of swampland that bulges into Cambodia. The area, 75 miles northwest of Saigon, has for 20 years been Communism's major stronghold in South Viet Nam, and is believed to contain the national headquarters of the Viet Cong. In the hope of getting the Communists to stand...
...undermanned. Even at a minimum $7,692 a year (near tops in the U.S.), it cannot lure enough recruits. New York City has nearly three times as many people as Los Angeles, more than five times as many police. In Los Angeles, only 5,035 men cover 458 sq. mi.-roughly ten cops per square mile, v. 39 in the average U.S. community...
Milan-based, Progetti capitalizes on speed, sharp figuring and salesmanship. The company snatched a deal for a $51 million, 500-mi. Syrian pipeline away from a British firm by offering to install it in half the time at lower cost. Beating out eleven international companies for a $32 million Madras, India, refinery contract, Progetti agreed to complete the 2½ million-ton plant in two years. The company has also pushed into the European market with a $4,000,000 pipeline in France, a $2,500,000 undersea line in Spain and a $3,000,000 factory job in West...
View from the Turret. The blizzard's main force battered a 100-mi.-wide strip extending from northeast Missouri to southern Michigan, inconveniencing millions. After widespread freezing rain, ice-laden power lines snapped, leaving dozens of entire communities-and 4,000 families in Kansas City-without electricity. In Michigan, Governor George Romney donned a Cossack hat, commandeered a lumbering National Guard half-track and, grandly manning the turret, cried out encouragement to the citizenry as he rode to the state capitol. In Gary, winds off Lake Michigan piled up 15-ft. snowdrifts, and Indi- ana's Governor Roger...
Another Thermometer. One Marine who carries that philosophy to perfection is Lieut. Colonel William Corson, 41, a former Naval Academy professor, economist and engineer who controls 50 sq. mi. of jungle west of Danang. After months of patrolling and night ambushes, Corson's 1,500-man battalion set up what he likes to call "my laboratory for capitalism." The first step was to engage the interest of the villagers, which Corson achieved by the un-Clausewitzean technique of teaching his men the local game: co tuong, a variant of chess that uses "elephants, cannon and 14th century infantry tactics...