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...101st Airborne "Screaming Eagles" nabbed a Viet Cong, who fingered his home base in a nearby, boxlike valley. The 101st promptly ringed the Viet Cong on three sides of the valley, while 2nd Battalion Commander Colonel Wilfred Smith flew his three companies into the valley's portal by helicopter to close the trap. Trouble was, the dried-up quilt of rice paddies chosen for landing was hard by the V.C. camp. So the Screaming Eagles got the hot welcome of a Viet Cong battalion. "I've hit a buzz saw," Smith shouted into his radio as two choppers...
...alone while parents work, and youths roam the streets seeking relief from the monotony of daily life. Watts is part of the Black Channel, a 72-square-mile area that houses 90% of Los Angeles County's 600,000 Negroes. It is the "hard," unchanging ghetto, a traditional portal for Negroes migrating to Los Angeles. Few of its people are native Californians. Of the 1.5 million Negroes who have fled the South in the past decade, one out of four went to California; thousands settled in Watts. There they were trapped among their own kind, smothered in their...
...says Saunders. "I heard a man crying, 'Help me, God help me!' But I couldn't see him. I was in the tube. The missile was in there. I got out of there." Lay and Saunders escaped through the tunnel leading to the single access portal. They were followed by Alan Aincham, 19, who had been posted in the passageway to check that workers in the silo carried no matches or articles that could strike a spark. Said Aincham: "It felt like there was a hurricane outside, and you had opened the door and let the wind...
...newest acquisitions, lifted into place last week, are two reliefs by Italian Sculptor Giacomo Manzù, 56, who did the Doors of Death for St. Peter's in Rome (TIME, July 24). Designed for the portal of the Palazzo d'ltalia, the bronze plaques replace a blatant bit of Mussolini modern-a 1935 glass panel of a lump-shouldered shoveler by one Attilio Piccirilli, inscribed ART IS LABOR; LABOR IS ART. "Brutto!" exclaimed Manzù when he saw it and, commissioned by the Fiat automobile company, engraved in 1963 his own images in bronze...
...first, Manzù contemplated such portentous subjects as Venus, Minerva and Apollo, even thought of doing the death of Caesar. But happily he closed his ears to classical echoes and eyed the recent past. Manzù replaced the center of three glass doors side by side in the portal ("It is not the entrance to the subway") with a 3-ft. by 6½-ft. panel depicting Italian emigrants to America. "Ours is a poor country," says he of Italy. "Our people went to America because they wanted to eat." With her worldly goods wrapped in a kerchief, a barefoot...