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...last week, the phone rang in the big white stucco house on Alpine Drive. The maid-a Beverly Hills policewoman-answered, told the caller that Mr. Firestone could not be disturbed. Twenty minutes later, a black 1965 Ford sedan pulled into the semicircular driveway. Two men walked toward the door. One, Bailey, wore a rubber Halloween mask to hide the knife scars above his right eye. The other, Skalla, had a brown felt hat pulled down over his eyes. Both carried guns-Skalla had one in each hand-and wore surgical gloves...
...There were leeches and lice, poisonous vipers and venereal diseases, dengue, and a virulent strain of malaria that has defied preventives and resists cure. Temperatures hit 130° on the sandy beaches, 20° in the mountains. In the water-filled bunkers of Danang and Phan Rang, marines and paratroopers wrapped themselves in rubberized ponchos to grab a few hours' soaked sleep. In the endless paddyfields, men on long patrols came down with agonizing foot sores from polluted ooze...
...Medical Battalion, comprising four companies. At Danang is Company C, or "Charlie Med" to the gyrenes. "Back last summer," says Lieut. Commander Richard M. Escajeda, 36, chief surgeon and commander of Charlie Med, "we used to classify eight casualties as a mass casualty event. Then we rang a big metal ring-like a country fire alarm-and everybody reported to his station. Now things have changed so, we have to get 20 patients at once before we consider it a mass casualty...
...Great Conspiracy Against America first came to light in 1797, when the pulpits of New England rang with denunciations of the Illuminati, a sinister society of freethinkers who were purportedly prepared to attack the U.S. with a number of secret weapons-among them a tea that caused abortion and a "method for filling a bedchamber with pestilential vapours." By 1835, control of the conspiracy had passed to the Pope, whose Jesuits were reported "prowling about all parts of the United States in disguise" and conjugating in clandestine convents with unnatural nuns. By 1951, according to Senator McCarthy, the perennial enemy...
...70th anniversary of the birth of the great Russian village poet, Sergei Esenin. In his 52-line Letter to Esenin, Evtushenko raged oratorically on about how the "red-cheeked Komsomol leader thunders with his fists at us poets and wants to knead our souls like wax." The lines rang a bell for Sergei Pavlov, the red-cheeked secretary of the Komsomol (Young Communist League). He stormed out of the meeting and returned with four militiamen to arrest the bard, but backed off when the crowd of young poetry lovers staged a stormy protest of their own. Dear Esenin, Russia...