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...five wounded a day. Typical was a night's work last week. After dusk a Marine platoon surrounded a hamlet in which V.C. had been reported hiding out, split into five squads and sat down to wait. No one spoke, no cigarettes were allowed, nor was mosquito repel lent, despite the stinging swarms-for a trained soldier can smell the chemical 50 yards away. Around 3 a.m. a drenching monsoon rain roared in from the northeast, but still not a marine moved. It lasted two hours. Finally the wan moon reappeared and picked out four men, its light gleaming...
...independent rather than a down-the-line Republican. Beame declared himself the underdog and charged that Lindsay was being used "by the rejected Republican Party as a front in its attempted comeback in the city, state and nation." Beame called for help from any and all quarters to "repel the invaders." His manager reported that Hubert Humphrey would "walk the streets, ring doorbells and make speeches" on Beame's behalf...
Though the great majority of undergraduates in the clubs are graduates of New England prep schools and often come from socially prominent families, the clubs claim to take other factors into consideration when recruiting members. Some of the clubs have built images which either attract or repel club-bound sophomores. Both the Spee and the Fly have reputations for being intellectual and favoring artists and other "achievers"; the A. D. tends to attract fastidiously-dressed New Yorkers; the Owl draws a lot of athletes; Delphic members are quite likely to enjoy heavy drinking and gambling; the Porcellian Club...
...Body's Mistake. One of Dr. Uhr's most important findings was that "immunological memory" usually involves the smaller molecules. The system can remember all through its life how to make them, and how to muster them to repel an invading virus. But why, having once started, does it not keep on manufacturing them rather than wait for a new invasion? Neither Dr. Uhr nor any other immunologist can be certain, but there seems to be a feedback mechanism whereby, once the blood is sated with antibody, it yells "Enough!," and the antibody factory shuts down...
...another country while Mother rests easy, secure in the knowledge that her daughter is not alone in a strange land. Girls from 15 to 30, usually listed as students and therefore technically not workers, slip comfort ably past immigration roadblocks and working restrictions even in countries that jealously repel foreigners who might take jobs away from natives...