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...photo jets streak over North Viet Nam and Laos, filming huge patches- and tiny pockets- of jungled land, searching for the scantest signs of activity by Communist forces. Finding the infiltrating enemy has been a lot easier of late. "We are spotting convoys of more than 100 vehicles in Laos and the lower panhandle now," says one U.S. reconnaissance pilot. "It used to be that 10 to 15 trucks were a big catch." Now nearly every photo foray turns up new roads and fuel depots, fresh truck parks and antiaircraft gun sites...
...election. Nevertheless, he left behind him an organization headed by his campaign assistant, State Senator Culbert L. Olson, who remained as Democratic State Central Committee Chairman. Senator McAdoo, who regards California as his political proconsulate, did not choose to honor State Chairman Olson with more than the scantest patronage. When Mr. Olson threatened to organize a delegation to the Democratic National Convention pledged not only to Franklin Roosevelt but to production-for-use, he was hastily invited to Washington. As a compromise President Roosevelt himself agreed to pick the slate of Democratic delegates. When he did so only ten EPIC...
...wanderlusty siren that she presents herself, but as the brave, beautiful woman who rushes in with passionate intellectual curiosity where goody-goodies fear to tread. With the highly respectable necessity of supporting her two children she turns sculptress and newspaper correspondent, following the scantest lead to new quarry. Mussolini's large feet she found grotesquely absurd, his shuffling step that of a defiant child rather than a decisive man. She made his first sitting the last because his conduct was "bestial," "unwritable...