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Beehives. Eighteen hours after the Christmas truce ended, the Communists struck in earnest. Their target was a 100-ft.-high hill near Bong Son on the edge of the Central Highlands where a U.S. battery of 155-mm. howitzers and another of 105 mm. had been dug in for a month. Three platoons of the 1st Cavalry were on duty defending the twelve big guns and their crews. Under cover of evening rain, elements of North Viet Nam's 22nd Regiment slithered up the hill, snipping the detonating wires of Claymore mines strung round the camp, and neutralizing trip...
...especially thin tube to leave room for what else had to go down the presidential throat: a laryngoscope (see diagram), 2.5 centimeters in diameter. Peering through the laryngoscope with the six-power operating-room microscope, Dr. Gould saw the polyp. It was a bit bigger (4 mm. by 5 mm.) than he had expected, and a bit lower down. Still, it was a simple though delicate procedure to work his cupped forceps around so that he got almost all of the polyp at one snip. Two more snips removed tiny bits from its edges, where it had been attached...
Mark Lane-and others-theorize that Kennedy was shot from a grassy knoll in front of the motorcade, that Oswald's 6.5-mm. Italian rifle was planted in the Book Depository sniper's nest to frame him, that Jack Ruby was part of a widespread plot to eliminate Oswald before he squealed, that slain Patrolman J. D. Tippit was likely in league with the assassins, and that a bullet fired from Oswald's rifle and found on a stretcher at Parkland Hospital had been planted there by unknown conspirators...
Knockout Punch. Behind the rapid-fire left jabs of its M16s, the infantry squad carries a knockout punch in the blunderbuss-shaped M-79 grenade launcher. "Beautiful little seventy-niners," the Marines call them, particularly when a 40-mm. grenade-spring-loaded with half-inch steel barbs -pops in the middle of a Viet Cong position 385 yds. away. The M-79 has two drawbacks: it is only a single-shot weapon (good grenadiers get off 16 rounds per minute), and its grenades are armed only after a flight of 30 meters through the air-in order to protect...
...filtration surge with Kent in 1952, P. Lorillard now has only two nonfilters (York and Old Gold Straights), recently launched True cigarettes in plain and menthol versions. Danville, another new Lorillard filter, is being test-marketed in the South. Philip Morris now has Marlboro Green menthols, Galaxy and 100-mm. Benson & Hedges filters. Last month Liggett & Myers put menthol Chesterfields on the market...