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...least temporarily-the modern residential section south of the Perfume River, but the battle raged with full fury in the rubble-strewn Citadel, the early 19th century imperial fortress that holds much of Viet Nam's architectural and cultural treasure. As thousands of refugees huddled under a grey pall from countless fires, 1,000 U.S. Marines crossed the river to help the 2,500 South Vietnamese infantrymen and Marines fighting to recapture the former royal enclosure, once known as "the Forbidden City...
...contests at Grenoble were that close. Austria's pretty Olga Pall, 20, won the ladies' downhill by almost half a second over France's Isabelle Mir. The pro-caliber Russian hockey team blanked Finland, 8-0, and East Germany, 9-0, then handed the U.S. squad its third straight defeat, by the equally lopsided score of 10-2. Nine-time World Champion Eugenio Monti, at 40, demonstrated that he has lost none of his skill and daring by piloting Italy's No. 1 sled to victory in the first two heats of the two-man bobsled...
...this time, Ian, a nondescript clerk, had met Myra, 18, a typist who soon began moonlighting for Ian as a sadist's apprentice. When their parlor perversities and homemade dirty photographs began to pall, there was very little left to do but to test De Sade's theory: "Murder is a hobby and a supreme pleasure." A young corpse a year, with frequent visits to the graves on the moors, kept Ian and Myra reasonably serene but leaves Williams feverishly laying out plot and explication like a row of tombstones.* He points, he nudges, he oohs...
...there are other digressions which drag. Greene's interviews with North Vietnamese officials add little. Greene's would have done better to stick to his theme of the effects of the war on daily life, rather than wasting time shooting interviews with Hanoi official-dom. Other baldly ideological sequences pall, such as scenes of marching North Vietnamese soldiers (there is "no conscription" in North Vietnam, maintains Greene) striding forward to the tunes of the Liberation Hymn of South Vietnam...
There were other gripes, too. The American Tobacco Co. complained that the 23.1 mg. of tar reported for its 100-mm. Pall Mall filters was based on an old version replaced in October by an improved filter that yields less than 21 mg. For all the huffs, however, Magnuson is going ahead with plans to urge retailers to display the rankings at cigarette counters...