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...South Vietnamese fought well and aggressively. But after a month in the field, they wearied. Unfortunately, the South Vietnamese still seemed incapable of fighting a prolonged and bloody engagement with the more determined and seasoned North Vietnamese regulars. In action reminiscent of the ARVN's performance in the mid-1960s, the South Vietnamese retired to their forts, leaving the initiative and the countryside to the enemy...
...mid-June, the North Vietnamese completely surrounded Ben Het and cut off virtually all ground access to it. Though ammunition remained plentiful, Ben Het's defenders suffered from a lack of fresh water and hot food. They also suffered from the lack of an on-the-spot commander. Directing the battle from his headquarters at Kontum, 30 miles southeast of Ben Het, Lien rarely flew into the besieged outpost. As a result, he was unable to make the most effective use of the massive U.S. air power and artillery that were put at his disposal. Communications between the various...
...some of the mortgages I've written"), and scriptwriter for radio's Gangbusters, Lytton used Broadway promotional techniques to build his Los Angeles-based Lytton Financial Corp. into a $700 million business. Overextension and the collapse of the California housing boom started his downfall in the mid-'60s, and creditors moved in to depose him in April 1968. "Money," he once said, "can be merchandised just like girlie shows," and in recent months he was contemplating a fresh start with his own advertising agency, conceding that he was no longer a rich man but "probably still...
...outperform the mar ket. Last year's rich winners were those fund managers who correctly foresaw that the market would rally after President Johnson's renunciation. This year those managers failed to anticipate that the market would tumble after bankers raised the prime rate to 81/2% in mid-May. Many of the go-go funds were loaded with thinly held stocks of nursing homes and computer-leasing firms, which were badly battered by the Government's anti-inflationary drive...
Convert's Zeal. Proud of its constitutional mandate to advise the President on treaties, the Senate has long brooded over what it feels to be an arrogation of its influence in foreign affairs. Conservatives in the mid-'50s nearly succeeded in initiating a constitutional restriction, the Bricker Amendment, that would have stopped the President from signing executive agreements with other countries. When that attempt failed, emotions cooled for a while, only to be fired once again by Viet Nam and what many felt was Johnsonian duplicity in leading the U.S. into...