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Credits & Debits. U.S. military advisers still complain that poor communications and the highly centralized command setup of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem retard quick response to Viet Cong attacks. But slowly, the tactics taught by the U.S. advisers-most notably the use of helicopters-have begun to show results. The Viet Cong is now suffering nearly twice as many casualties as the South Vietnamese and the amount of captured Viet Cong equipment is rising. Viet Cong defections are on the increase, and Viet Cong terror tactics against the Montagnards (mountain tribesmen), who have been indifferent...
...bounce. He is overweight (5 ft. 5 in., almost 200 lbs.) has high blood pressure and a heart condition. According to one rumor, he is receiving injections of water and procaine (better known by the trade name Novocain), a dubious treatment devised by a Rumanian woman doctor to retard the aging process. He has limited his partygoing, restricted his diet, cut out hard liquor. Nowadays, says Khrushchev, wagging a finger at First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan. 66, "he is the drinker, while I am the talker...
...still inevitably colored by engaging romanticism ("crude oil exerts a true attraction only on condition that it be buried under burning sands"), it is by this time fairly flexible and realistic. Always relying on historical perspective, Aron makes a good case for his contention that no inherent inefficiency will retard the growth of the economy...
...needle on the accelerometer or "g meter," which gauges the piling up of gravity forces. In a "g suit" hooked up to an automatic air-compressor system, I felt a giant's fist pressing into my belly, two pairs of giant hands around my thighs and calves, to retard the flow of blood to the feet and reduce the risk of blackout. Belatedly I remembered to try the "M1 maneuver"-tensing the abdominal muscles to reduce the blood drainage still more. The g-meter needle crept up past 2 to 3 and on to 4. My normal...
...back in 1819, that the Constitution exempts the Federal Government from state taxation. Setting forth his renowned dictum that "the power to tax involves the power to destroy," Chief Justice John Marshall declared that the states (and, by inference, local governments) "have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress...