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Nevertheless, by the time the embargo was finally lifted midweek, considerable detail was already flowing into New York, where Timothy James, who wrote the main narrative, was able to draw on his own knowledge from a previous trip to South Viet Nam. On-the-scene reportage came from James Willwerth, who hitched a plane ride from Saigon to I Corps, where he viewed the situation at Khe Sanh and Lang Vei, a point about three miles from the Laotian border. By now the final elements were falling into place as cables arrived from Stanley Cloud, who had flown from Bangkok...
...downpour temporarily knocked out power lines in three boroughs and Westchester County, leaving nearly 10,000 families without electricity-and air conditioning. But most of the time, a dull, maddening haze obscured the sky. "It looked awful," said Pilot-Photographer Tony Linck, after he had helicoptered around Manhattan in midweek, on assignment for TIME. "It was like flying inside a yellow-gray cloud. We had to fly by compass at one point...
...most dramatic turn in the fighting occurred in the northern provincial capital of Siem Reap, only 21 miles from the fabled temple ruins at Angkor. At midweek, following reports of Communist movement in the area, the hastily fortified Siem Reap airport was shut down. Only twelve hours after the last planeload of tourists had lifted off, the Communists attacked the airport, the most modern in Cambodia, and then the city...
...results were as unmistakable as the fuzz on his face. By Friday, as the weekend intimacies approached, his beard growth had increased by nearly 20% over its midweek rate. But after his sexual needs were fulfilled, hair growth abated. On Monday, in fact, his stubble was shorter than on any other day of the week...
...sellers, who had sold borrowed stock in the hope that the price would drop and then scrambled to cover their positions when prices began to rise. There were rumors, too, that for some mysterious reason important foreign investors had decided to pump $700 million into the U.S. market. At midweek, a more basic reason for optimism appeared in the form of remarks by Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns at President Nixon's White House dinner for business chiefs (see THE NATION...