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...smaller parts varied widely in quality. As well as playing Mosquito, a sort of Andalusian sprite, Wendy Miller took two bit parts and was delightfully joyous in all of them. Frederick Davis, Larry Gonick, Ken Sateriale, and Peter McKenzie, as villagers of all sorts, ranged from fair to unfortunate...
V.C.s' Mutual Aid. The mosquito-borne malaria parasite of Viet Nam jungles shares its territory with the Viet Cong. In fact, they support each other. The Viet Cong have given the disease a free hand by preventing anti-mosquito spraying. And malaria has helped the V.C. by attacking newly arrived U.S troops who do not share the partial immunity of men who have had malaria and recovered. It has become a truism among U.S. troops that "if you go out and catch Viet Cong, you'll also catch malaria...
Fidel Castro's Communist dictatorship fairly bristles with coastal emplacements, sea-scanning radar, patrolling helicopters and 45-m.p.h. komar-class Soviet torpedo boats. Yet whenever the mosquito navy of the anti-Castro exiles buzzes up to bite away at fortress Cuba, as it did in Havana harbor last week, the recruits behind Castro's hardware curiously seem to be looking the other...
...themselves into the klieg lights. It was the Brazilian location of Tarzan and the Big River, and ex-National Football League Linebacker Mike Henry, the 14th Tarzan since the film series began in 1918, stood shivering in his thatched hut. Then, girding his loincloth, he swung wildly at a mosquito (thus marring his body makeup) and grumbled: "I took this job on to find out if the movie people really had fun. Now that I know, I'm getting the hell...
...dead and five wounded a day. Typical was a night's work last week. After dusk a Marine platoon surrounded a hamlet in which V.C. had been reported hiding out, split into five squads and sat down to wait. No one spoke, no cigarettes were allowed, nor was mosquito repel lent, despite the stinging swarms-for a trained soldier can smell the chemical 50 yards away. Around 3 a.m. a drenching monsoon rain roared in from the northeast, but still not a marine moved. It lasted two hours. Finally the wan moon reappeared and picked out four...