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...Better You than Them." McCoy's first test came on the third night the Carronade was on the line. A U.S. Army adviser called in from an outpost that was being overrun by Viet Cong, desperately demanded fire support. McCoy explained that his 5-in. gun was out of commission and all he had was rockets. "Never mind," answered the adviser. "Better you than them." The Carronade cut loose, slamming rockets into the attackers, only 200 yds. from the friendly troops. That night confidence was born in the accuracy of naval rocket fire. "We got to the point," says...
...Congo and Ghana, but proved to be more adaptable than an African chameleon. Rather than cut and run, it decided to stay and grow along with a yearning market. During the terrifying upheavals in the Congo, Unilever men opened new plantations even while existing ones were being overrun by the Simbas. The company also opened up more opportunities for local people. Since 1956 it has increased its proportion of black African managers from...
...performance of the government. Washington, in turn, has evinced little enthusiasm for the academics' appearance as public figures. At a teach-in at Harvard last summer a speaker, Professor Staughton Lynd of Yale, suggested that the President was insane and was vigorously applauded. Meanwhile, in a capital once overrun with professors, academic credentials seem now to be treated more as a disease than as a qualification for public employment...
...building itself was fairly overrun with other FBI types because the Bureau has long recommended it as a nice place to live. Subsequently, someone fingered Carter, whose FBI job was as a fingerprint clerk. Two days later, he was summoned before the agent in charge of his division. He was told that a formal complaint had been filed about his behavior and ordered to write a statement explaining why he had slept in the same room with a woman. Tom Carter wrote his report, which failed to satisfy his superiors. On Aug. 26 he was fired from...
...sent hundreds of thousands of Americans sponging their way through Europe. But the book is deceptive. Its clean family hotels may turn out to be flophouses or cathouses, and its 500 restaurants can be followed by $20 doctor bills. In addition, most of the legitimate establishments have become so overrun with tourists that their prices have soared and they are always full. Its greatest danger, however, is that it is likely to lead the unwary reader into taking a trip he cannot afford-and leave him strapped and stranded when his money doesn't stretch as far as Frommer...