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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...family took shelter in the plane, melted snow for drinking water, subsisted a while on two jars of jelly and a couple of sandwiches taken on the trip. In mid-March, when Oien was well enough to move, he set out through five feet of snow for help. "At 1:15 p.m., Al shouted O.K. and crossed the gully," the diary said. Days later, Carla wrote, "Fear Al did not make it ... Getting weak...
...artillery bombardments have left the three red hills of Con Thien a crater-pocked moonscape. Monsoon rains, a month ahead of their normal mid-October arrival, have churned the outpost into a quagmire reminiscent of Ypres in World War I. Everything must be brought into the outpost by helicopter to a landing zone grimly known as "Death Valley," or over the unpaved road from Cam Lo. Everything rots or mildews. The Marines at Con Thien live on C rations. Because water is scarce, they shave only every other day and can seldom wash...
...also speared Benvenuti in the ribs with his shoulders, butted him on the chin and belted him in the kidneys; Nino, who fights without a mouthpiece, retaliated by biting Emile's neck. But the only knockdown came in the 14th round, when Benvenuti collided with Griffith in mid-ring and fell, for a count of none. Neither fighter did any real damage to the other-legally, at least-and so few punches connected that the referee called the fight a draw. The two judges voted for Emile-9 rounds to 5, with 1 even. By a split decision, Griffith...
Sympathy from Romney. California embraced Medicaid early and enthusiastically but changed its name to Medi-Cal. Now it threatens to become Medi-Lo-Cal. In mid-August, California Health and Welfare Administrator Spencer Williams ordered a $210 million cut in Medi-Cal outlays to keep them within the state budget. Biggest cuts would have been in non-emergency surgery, length of hospital stay, drug bills and dental care. But a superior court judge declared the cutbacks illegal. Governor Reagan appealed, and the State Supreme Court is expected to hear the case in about a month. Meanwhile, Reagan has threatened those...
...some shops and drugstores, cigarette counters forgo profits to sell smokes as "loss leaders"-a tactic aimed at building customer traffic in general. At the other end of the price scale, the tactics are less subtle. In mid-Manhattan, not far from an A. & P. supermarket where shoppers buy regular-size cigarettes at 39? a pack, conventioneers visiting the Big Town can pay the big price at the New York Hilton newsstand-52? for nonfilter regulars, 53? for other kinds-and get some big lip too. "Because that's what we charge!" jeers the counterman at anyone who questions...