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...Sanh, moreover, lies within range of Hanoi's big Russian-made 152-mm. howitzers emplaced in North Viet Nam and Laos. High-speed trails have been cut eastward from Laos into South Viet Nam to supply the Communist besiegers, who are heavily armed with portable howitzers and mortars. To ensure easier access to the new trails, the Communists last week overran the Royal Laotian border outpost of Ban Houei Sane and put its 2,000 defenders to flight...
...lunar new year) ceasefire. The truce began at the end of last week, after five days of intermittent shelling of Khe Sanh by Giap's long guns from North Viet Nam and rockets, mortars and recoilless rifles fired at closer range. The giant U.S. 175-mm. artillery at Camp Carroll and the Rockpile, another Marine base, answered back. U.S. fighter-bombers, many diverted from hitting North Viet Nam, rained down the heaviest explosive loads of the war on the enemy around Khe Sanh in more than 1,500 sorties. Among their targets was the village of Khe Sanh, located...
...Rollei is rolling again. The company has called a halt to its long dependence on the 120-mm. Rolleiflex, priced at $260-to-$450 in the U.S., and is focusing on the growing market for smaller 35-mm. models. Though overall German camera sales tumbled by 7% last year, Rollei's rose by 40% from $9,000,000 to an estimated $12.5 million. So strong is demand that the company looks for sales increases of 25% this year and next-if the factory can handle...
...month in and out of the water photographing submersibles. A veteran of 30 years' diving, he still finds undersea photography tricky and rigorous work. Shooting the submarine Deep Diver, he wrestled strong currents along the Gulf Stream for three hours, switching between two cameras, one with 35-mm lens, one 28-mm...
...into his gastrointestinal tract. Evidently the clotting mechanism in his blood had been knocked out by the failure of his liver to produce the necessary enzymes. His platelets (tiny disklike elements in the blood, which are important in clotting) plummeted from a normal count of 250,000 per cu. mm. to 4,000. This required heroic measures. Kasperak had to have blood transfusions, and to remove metabolic wastes from his body the surgeons punched another hole in him-through the abdominal wall, for peritoneal dialysis. This is a process in which a solution is pumped into the abdominal cavity...