Word: mm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arrived, C Company suffered daily casualties. Most of the mayhem was caused by mines and booby traps, and they were particularly plentiful in and around My Lai. By mid-March, the company, had lost a third of its original strength of more than 100 men. One day, a 155 mm. shell rigged as a booby trap killed one and injured four or five others. As Sergeant Michael B. Terry, 22, recalled it last week, "that really bothered the guys." Evidently so. Some of the men in the unit later beat up an innocent woman whom they spotted in a field...
...photos are Bachrach-on-an-off-day portraits of the delegates, candidates, and hangers-on that are tenuously related to anything only by the banalities Duncan wrote to accompany his photos. These portraits are really little more than testimonials to the sharpness of a new lens, a prototype 400 mm. f/6.3 telephoto made by Ernst Leitz for the Mexico City Olympics. The lens really is fantastic; things are pretty bad, though, when the most praiseworthy thing about a series of photos is their sharpness...
Scurvy may once have been the curse of the Arctic mariner; on the Manhattan, where three meals and fresh fruit are served daily, the only threat was to the waistline. In 1819, the ice-trapped crew of the Hecla passed the Arctic nights by performing Garrick's Mm in Her Teens; on the Manhattan, the glacial boredom was punctuated by a movie every other...
...experienced its first violent contact with the enemy, suffering three dead and two wounded in a fierce firefight at the foot of a low hill called Nui Lon. The North Vietnamese left 20 bodies. There were more contacts during the next two days, then an evening barrage of 82-mm. fire, followed by a predawn fusillade of small-arm fire. After five days of fighting, Alpha Company's mud-caked survivors were exhausted, thirsty, hungry-and scared...
...only noteworthy Israeli attack was against an army base near Asyut, midway between Cairo and the Aswan Dam, and about 200 miles from the nearest Israeli base. Apparently carried by French-built Super Ferlon helicopters, a commando force landed in the dead of night, lobbed several 122-mm. mortar shells at the base and left without a casualty. The Israelis caused no major damage, but again reminded Nasser that they can strike almost any Egyptian target with terrifying impunity...