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...shock), the Marines at Khe Sanh are taking their ordeal with considerable composure. Only their unwelcome bunkermates-the rats-be come frantic under fire. When the "in coming" starts, the rats race for the bunkers and wildly run up to the ceilings made of runway matting and logs. One sergeant has killed 34 rats, establishing a base record...
...sells $65 million a year worth of purified water, coolers, cups and allied equipment. About 40% of that business is concentrated in arid Southern California, partly because of the climate and partly because much of the local tap water, though safe enough to drink, would shrivel a mess sergeant's taste buds. The demand is spreading. Mountain Valley Water Co. distributes its green bottles of spring water from Hot Springs, Ark., to 40 states. And to cater to tastes brought home by tourists, President John G. Scott has added such familiar European mineral waters as Evian, Vichy...
...expert cryptanalyst and the Sunday-puzzle expert alike rely on the fact that letters have their own personalities. As David Kahn writes: "To the casual observer, they may look as alike as troops lined up for inspection, but just as the sergeant knows his men as 'the gold-brick,' 'the kid,' 'the reliable soldier,' so the cryptanalyst knows the letters of the alphabet...
...worst happens, and an individual is inducted, he can always punch the sergeant in the nose at the pre-induction physical or refuse to sign the loyalty oath at the induction, a move which usually means a five-month delay...
...swarmed through it; others quickly scaled a rear fence. Though allied intelligence had predicted the attack, the embassy's defense consisted of only five U.S. military guards-just one more than normal. They fought back so fiercely that only their courage denied the enemy complete success. Sergeant Ronald W. Harper, 20, a Marine guard, managed to heave shut the embassy's massive teakwood front doors just seconds before the guerrillas battered at them with rockets and machine guns, thus denying the V.C. entry to the main building...