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New Recruits. With no cease-fire assured, the U.S. got a guerrilla operation of its own going in Laos. The main recruits: anti-Communist Meo tribesmen, a rugged breed who live only above 3,000 ft., raise opium and Husky-like white dogs. (Standing advice to U.S. pilots: "If you...
The social scientists have helped make the U.S. the most self-analytic civilization ever known. Rome was not conscious of the "fall of the Roman Empire"; the Crusaders scarcely analyzed the infectious new ideas they brought back from the East; the romantics wrote new kinds of poetry, but did not...
High over the jungle green hills of Laos, unmarked U.S. transport planes loosed red and white parachutes that floated down the supplies of war: ammunition, clothing and food. Only a few miles away, across a canyon or a hill. Russian Ilyushins bounced onto rough turf runways bearing howitzers, mortars, assault...
The old man was the "Burma Surgeon," Gordon Stifler Seagrave, who is just short of 64 years old, and looks older. Through four decades and many tropical illnesses he has labored at Namkham in northeastern Burma, within sight of the China border, 130 miles by the rugged Burma Road from...
After one rugged session with Patterson, a battered sparring partner last week emerged from the ring to say: "He sends a very sincere message." In the betting on next week's fight, the odds are that Johansson will be on the receiving end of that message.