Word: mix-up
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Despite the vexed outcome of the latest Vance mission, the fact that L.B.J. had chosen him not only to supervise the U.S. Army during the Detroit riots last summer, but to mediate the latest Mediterranean mix-up as well, vouched for the President's trust in the handsome, lanky lawyer. Lyndon has said he would like a man experienced in government to succeed McNamara-and Vance is clearly experienced...
...ghoulish mix-up was unraveled by Guinn's uncle, William Adkins, who began to doubt his nephew's death when the family received a letter from him dated two days after he supposedly died. Adkins had the corpse exhumed; Army fingerprints showed that the dead soldier was not Guinn but a look-alike Kentuckian, Private First Class Quinn W. Tichenor, also 23 and also with the 4th Infantry. He had been killed just a quarter-mile from where Guinn was fighting...
...huff, they flew back to Saigon and held a press conference. There they blamed the mix-up on their military rivals, Chief of State General Nguyen Van Thieu and Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, who, they said, were sabotaging the campaign...
...result: only ten pairs could be matched, and most of those were too fuzzy to be used in evidence if a mix-up case ever got to court. Dr. Shepard concludes in Pediatrics that footprint-ing of babies is worthless. To avoid confusion he suggests that hospitals stick to a name band put on the baby's wrist in the delivery room...
...busy, big city airports where planes arrive and depart in droves, traffic controllers have powerful radars to help them keep track of the high-speed activity. But planes show up on the crowded radarscopes as small luminous blips that are sometimes difficult to identify properly, and a mix-up of blips may lead to disaster...