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...with the familiar strains of Rossini's William Tell Overture, theme music for The Lone Ranger. Or with Rimski-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee, accompanying another episode of The Green Hornet. Once more The Shadow purrs, "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?" Sergeant Preston of the Yukon hustles his huskies, Our Gal Sunday strives to find happiness with a wealthy, titled Englishman, and 15-year-old Speed Gibson of the International Police doggedly pursues his archfoe, The Octopus...
Americans are also disregarding the national 55-m.p.h. speed limit, thus burning more gasoline. Police are concerned because they know that high speeds are linked to high-accident rates. "When gas became more available," laments Pennsylvania State Police Sergeant William Malzi, "that right foot began to get heavy again." But little can be done about it. If everybody speeds, points out Officer Kent Milton of California's highway patrol, "enforcement of the limit is more difficult...
...fire-hardened bamboo spikes and anti-personnel mines set between two fences of nine-foot wooden stakes. But inside, people live much as they always have--the way the French travelers and the American Army's books said they lived, and the way Rubin knew them as a sergeant in the U.S. Special Forces from 1962 to 1964. There are about 30 longhouses in the village, with wooden piles underneath them to keep out floods and give the pigs, chickens and children a place to play. (When Americans and Saigon troops resettled Rhade tribesmen in small houses after taking their...
...just by their own actions, even combined with the weather and the poverty and lack of sanitation that kill their children. Outsiders affect their lives too, now--Buc, the barber who joined the NLF when he learned that the Saigon government was encouraging men to grow their hair long; Sergeant Culpepper, the medic who solemnly affirms that American medicine is as good as scorpion urine; Colonel Quoc, ambitious and rising fast in the Saigon command but terrified of his astrology chart and unwilling to endanger his career by resisting an NLF attack. It becomes apparent, slowly (but quicker than...
Director Merrill calls Chris Mahan the "only indispensable man I know. If he ever didn't show up, we could not do Les Troyens." Mahan sees himself as a "cross between a nanny and a top sergeant. You must be aware of everything that happens on the stage. That includes some vague lady in the chorus who does not know right from left. You must allow for everything-like where you put 60 swords. It is like being a garage mechanic: you have the problem and then work backward...