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...style, says Cartier-Bresson, requires "a velvet hand, a hawk's eye." Carrying a single camera covered with black tape to make it as unobtrusive as possible, he has managed to compress life into 35-mm. frames. He calls himself a "discoverer" and says that his success "depends on intuition, very quick guessing. When you take a good picture, it jumps out, like an orgasm...
...companion on the trip, an Israeli reserve officer, started by placing a 9-mm. pistol on the ledge under the dash of our Ford Cortina. His gesture seemed symbolic of the atmosphere along much of the border. We began at Mount Hermon, the snow-covered peak that cornerstones the border between Israel, Lebanon and Syria. There we spotted the first of the yellow bulldozers that are everywhere in the occupied territories, scraping and pushing, widening and straightening, lifting boulers or rearranging sand. It is said that Israel has more bulldozers per capita than any other nation; I can believe...
...days passed, the enemy hit the schoolyard with .50-cal. machine-gun bullets, mortars, and a giant 122-mm. rocket that toppled a 60-ft. tree. At the height of the battle, Srey Yar sent a radio message to Lon Nol promising that he and his men would not surrender. Even though they ran short of ammunition and food, and were outnumbered by about 5 to 1, they kept their word, but the cost was fearfully high. Of the 400 Cambodians, 50 were killed and 300 wounded, including 114 critically. Estimates of enemy soldiers killed ranged from...
...turns out that Hippocrates was right after all. Proof of his accuracy comes from three Mayo Clinic researchers, Drs. Anton Sutor, E.J. Walter Bowie and Charles Owens Jr., who used hemophiliac volunteers to determine the effects of cold on bleeding. Their experiments were simple. Making small (1 mm.-long by 1 mm.-deep) wounds in their subjects' arms, they tried chilling first the wound itself, then the wound and the surrounding area, and finally the surrounding area alone. Each time they collected the blood in special plastic cubes and analyzed it to determine clotting time...
...plane, dubbed the Super-Mirage by Israeli flyers, is a light, swift jet that can reach speeds of at least Mach 1.5, operates at low altitudes and utilizes short runways. It will carry three tons of bombs, two 20-mm. cannon, and possibly a third gun called the Vulcan, which is electrically operated and fires 6,000 rounds a minute through six barrels. The Super-Mirage is equipped with a U.S.-manufactured J-79 General Electric engine similar to the one that powers U.S.-built Phantoms. Israeli engineers have also installed the J-79 in their older Mirage3 jets, replacing...