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Allied intelligence doubted that the Communists, who by allied count have lost 71,000 men since Tet, could muster a second offensive on the same devastating scale. But just in case they tried, allied troops were put on the alert throughout South Viet Nam. City dwellers were asked to stockpile food and fuel, lock their doors and stay home. Saigon police threw a cordon around the capital to block arms infiltration. The U.S. 25th Infantry Division was deployed around Tan Son Nhut airport and the allied headquarters there, and B-52s bombed the Communists' likely approaches to Saigon...
Year-Round Passage. During its first full-scale tests on Lake Ontario, the Alexbow, attached to a 65-ft. barge pushed by a 1,320-h.p. tug, cleared a 30-ft. channel in unbroken blue ice 14 inches thick. It also knifed 180° turns as though the ice were butter. Running at speeds from 21 to 31 knots, the tug accelerated easily in thinner ice because there was no friction along the sides of the barge - the Alexbow had thrown all the troublesome chunks clear...
...genesis of his Chicago to his boyhood efforts in Nashville to duplicate the Ringling Bros. Circus in his own backyard and to his student days in Italy, where he toured with his own puppet show. For Grooms, the progression was from canvas, to collage, to "stickouts," to full-scale environments, which he likes to call simply "installations...
...fascinated," Thomson explained, "by our idea of exporting benevolence. Before World War II, our relations were on a personal, small foundation scale. But after the war, these private groups still existed but have become very much submerged by the state. We have secularized our benevolence and put it under a strong central government with the flag totally engaged...
What about those left at the top of the academic scale, the so-called brighter students, for whom study and intellectual attainment are most important? The college pushes these "top" people away from business by its very structure. "The reward structure of a good liberal arts college tends to lure the best men toward academic or professional careers," says the Atkinson-Stevens report. This is the first reason why "brighter"--more academically and intellectually motivated--students are avoiding business. Harvard places an optimum reward on academic achievement. The reward-incentive structure is one in which you receive quality of grades...