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...tent, he was told about a search-and-clear operation designed to flush the Viet Cong out of hill country 20 miles away. Then he visited a field post that had been under fire only the day before. Inspecting a pile of Viet Cong weapons, McNamara spied a 57-mm. recoilless rifle, remarked, "I suppose that's Chinese," was embarrassed to learn that it was an American model originally captured from government troops. McNamara also interrogated two guerrilla prisoners...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:07 p.m.). The Seven Year Itch, with Tom Ewell and Marilyn Monroe-one of MM's best roles...
...Polaroid Corp., has wanted to make it smaller and handier. Last week the Cambridge, Mass., company announced that it had found a way. It introduced a new camera that is lightweight (2½ lbs. v. 5 lbs. for other Polaroids) and not too much larger than the little 35-mm. camera that festoons tourists the world over. Any other company president might have wanted to do some personal boasting about such an achievement, but not publicity-shunning Edwin Land. He went off to Venice for a rest. Said he: "I'm in no mood to talk about those things...
...sturdy (6 ft. 2 in., 205 Ibs.) lefthander, Koufax has a baffling overhand motion and a bewildering arsenal of pitches. His fastball comes in like a 20-mm. cannon shell; his curve breaks so sharply that it acts, says Dodger Catcher John Roseboro, "like a chair whose legs suddenly collapse." Control? "When an umpire calls my pitch a ball," says Koufax casually, "that means it is either high or low. It's never outside or inside." All in all, agrees St. Louis Cardinals' Slugger Ken Boyer, "Koufax is just too damned much...
...Most Distinguished." Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, the devil-may-care World War II hero who used 60-mm. mortar shells as hand grenades against the Germans, was there. So was Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington, the Marine ace who shot 28 Japanese planes out of the sky and destroyed another 24 on the ground. A reformed alcoholic, Boyington is now a successful public relations man in North Hollywood, Calif., but in casual clothes and bow tie he still looked like an adventurer about to sign up with the Flying Tigers. The oldest man in the garden was General Charles E. Kilbourne...