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There seems to be little choice for students and faculty at Harvard but to become adapted to the Science Center. For if the brick-and-mortar structure of Massachusetts Hall has lasted for 250 years without too much trouble, the concrete-and-epoxy Science Center can be expected to be here long after the comfortable, old buildings of the Yard have turned to dust
...miles north of Saigon, the Communists kept up a steady but diminishing mortar and artillery attack on the town's 6,000 defenders, while a South Vietnamese relief force remained stalled under enemy fire on Highway 13. An Loc has little strategic value, but it has become a symbol of victory or defeat to both the North and South. "As it slowly disappears under the combined weight of allied bombing and Communist bombardment," reported TIME Correspondent Rudolph Rauch, who visited the area last week, "its symbolic importance grows ever greater. Like Dien Bien Phu, which also had no particular...
Figuratively as well as literally, bomb making is a boom-and-bust business. Last year it was bust for Norris Industries of Vernon, Calif., one of the biggest and busiest U.S. makers of casings and other metal hardware for bombs, mortar shells and artillery projectiles. The reduction of the American war effort in Viet Nam cut Norris' military sales by more than a third, though they still accounted for 28% of the company's total revenues of $272 million. Now the boom seems likely to resume with the intensification of U.S. bombing in Southeast Asia. In the first...
...reads the final entry last week in Saigon Correspondent David DeVoss's notebook. A metal fragment pierced the pages, and a few words are illegible because of blood streaks. Moments after he wrote his impressions, DeVoss was hit by North Vietnamese mortar fire. He was seriously wounded in his chest, arms and legs. He received immediate first aid on the scene, and was quickly flown by helicopter to the Third Field Hospital outside Tan Son Nhut Airbase, where he underwent emergency surgery. At week's end his condition was declared satisfactory...
When DeVoss left Saigon last week with two veteran combat photographers, Le Minh and Dirck Halstead, he was hoping to enter An Loc with the rescue force's first wave. But the advancing column was still ten miles south of its objective when the enemy mortar rounds started to fall...