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...Shaker Heights, each of Mercer School's 28 classrooms has a 16-mm. projector and a screen in a corner, which often pulls down in front of the room's television receiver. The firstfloor film center contains 600 wellcatalogued movies and 1,100 filmstrips (movie film to be projected one frame at a time, like slides...
...also got 189 Communists in Operation Coco Beach near Ben Cat-150 when a regimental-size force of Reds charged a 1st Division bivouac in the predawn darkness. The 1st fired back at point-blank range with everything it had, including 105-mm. howitzers. Near Tuy Hoa, the 101st Airborne's Operation Harrison has so far accounted for 189 enemy dead...
...Ford's Theater, now a Washington museum. The gun that killed Garfield is sous cloche in the Justice Department. The weapon that took McKinley's life is kept by a historical society in Buffalo, where he was shot. Last week the nation was assured that the 6.5-mm. Italian-made Mannlicher-Carcano rifle with which Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated John F. Kennedy would not end up in a private collection or a public peep show...
...latest works, currently at Manhattan's Richard Feigen Gallery, avoid the clanking humdrum of much kinetic art. Magically, when someone approaches his Sensitive Sphere, a particolored ball bounces into the air. In a variation, an 8-mm. film is projected into an airborne ball, playfully contorting and distorting the tiny images of human figures. Another work presents the appearance of a bouncing ball inside a shaped screen by means of rear projection...
...Brigade of the 25th Infantry Division, newly arrived from Hawaii. Assigned to the Cu Chi plain 20 miles northwest of Saigon, the brigade found itself encamped atop a veritable anthill of Viet Cong tunnels, in choking grey dust sometimes two feet deep. Enemy snipers and 60-and 81-mm. mortar crews penned the 4,000 men of the 2nd inside a perimeter only a mile long and 4,000 ft. wide-normally base-camp elbow room for only an 800-man battalion. Passage in and out was safe only by helicopter or 100-vehicle heavy convoy. The Viet Cong...