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Expedition (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.). A trip to the Roraima plateau in South America, inspiration for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World...
...Communist government of North Viet Nam is nervously looking toward the south. There, the Communist guerrillas are doing as well as ever, having extended their hold on the Mekong delta and the high plateau of South Viet Nam. But last week U.S.-supplied aircraft were dropping fiery chemicals to burn off jungle foliage from guerrilla hiding places along the Laos border. U.S. military advisers were training South Vietnamese battalions, and plans were under way to increase the South Viet Nam army from...
...payable in installments of $1 per visit. The installment provision will remain the same but several new categories of membership will now be offered. A sustaining membership which allows the admission of a free guest will be granted after the payment of $20. Upon reaching the $25 plateau, both the member and his guest will be admitted free of charge...
...keep the market up for a particular artist, for example, a dealer may place a work on sale, then bid it up himself so that the price for that artist will reach a new plateau. In another dodge, dishonest dealers sometimes hold pre-auction conspiracies among themselves: they buy shares in a work that is scheduled for the block and select one of their number to bid on it while all the rest pledge themselves to remain silent. With the competition thus limited, the selected dealer gets the work at a low price. When he, in turn, sells...
...strength in the past six months and seem able to muster a battalion-sized force at any point they choose, strike with it, and be gone before the road-bound army of President Ngo Dinh Diem can retaliate. Washington expects at any time a Communist announcement that the western plateau of South Viet Nam, next to the Laos border, is "liberated territory," complete with a "capital'' and a Communist government. Should it happen, Washington suggested last week, the U.S. will dispatch regimental combat teams to help train the South Viet Nam regulars and, if necessary, to fight...