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...that betray the presence of the Viet Cong. "We can't kill them all, but we can make sure Charlie has to eat cold rice," says an Air Force targeting officer. With powerful 4,500,000-candle-power flash cartridges, Recce planes can turn night into day to photograph enemy convoys sneaking down the Ho Chi Minh trail. "The object is to make Charlie walk," says another targeter. "I'd like to see him start walking at Hanoi. The farther he has to walk, the longer his supply line becomes, and the less there is that reaches...
...case of more obscure people, what makes a figure public is often painfully difficult to define. In a classic example, is a newspaper violating privacy by publishing the photograph of a woman jumping to her death? Her husband thought so, and sued the Los Angeles Examiner. But the state courts ruled in effect that by choosing such a spectacular method of killing herself, his wife had made herself a public figure, thereby forfeiting the right of privacy...
...wall of red flame leaped 3,000 ft., followed by a coiling pillar of oily black smoke that rose five miles and was visible 150 miles offshore. Exclaimed Commander Charles R. Smith, 39, of Dalhart, Texas, who wrestled his Vigilante reconnaissance plane through the heat and flames to photograph the holocaust: "It looked as if we had wiped out the entire world's supply...
...this year, southbound enemy truck traffic has doubled over that during the same 1965 period, while delivery of Red supplies south of the 17th parallel has jumped 150% and of troops 120%, to an estimated 4,500 men a month. As evidence, McNamara displayed a recent infra-red reconnaissance photograph of a 51-truck convoy creeping bumper-to-bumper at night down a North Vietnamese section of the trail. Said he: "Some of these routes are new, some have been widened and upgraded for all-weather truck use. Bypasses have been built, and bamboo-trellised canopies rigged over some jungle...
...lament of a man who finds out that his girl is a prostitute ("She's a big teaser . . . she only played one-night stands"). If that doesn't shake up the Beatles' fans, then the cover of their latest album would. It is a photograph of the famous four wearing butchers' smocks and laden with chunks of raw meat and the bodies of decapitated dolls. The first reaction to the cover in the U.S. was so violent that Capitol Records pulled it off the market, explaining that it was a misguided attempt at "pop-art satire...