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...Manhattan periodontist, describing his new mustache and goatee. Sybil Burton Christopher reckons that at least half of the popular Pancho Villa or Zapata mustaches seen in her Manhattan discotheque, Arthur, are phonies. Narcotics agents regard hoked-up hairiness as an invaluable aid in infiltrating hippie drug circles, and servicemen feel an added hank of hair increases chances that the weekend pass will be completed. According to one mother, her son and all his friends at Fort Sill, Okla., have ordered mustaches and beards by mail...
...generals. So weak is Loc's position that the truculent National Assembly, unable to muster enough votes to attack Thieu directly, was narrowly persuaded last week to drop a no-confidence vote against Loc. Still, on Loc's orders, Vietnamese courts have tried 32 South Viet namese servicemen and eight civilians on charges of embezzlement of government funds, bribery and associated crimes. All have drawn stiff sentences; three officers, found guilty of embezzling government funds or the salaries of their soldiers, were sentenced to death...
...minefields and monsoons, by helicopter to isolated outposts, and by airdrops to ships on duty near Yankee and Dixie stations in the South China Sea. About 11,000 are packeted to troops by the Army's Library Field Distributing Center. Half of these copies are donated by TIME; servicemen who can get to a PX snap up their copies at a special 250 rate. Many say they rely on TIME to fit their own unit's action into the picture of overall strategy. About 5,000 copies each week are also given free to hospitals and rest...
...downs of the U.S. birth rate (see chart) have experts pondering the mysteries of cause and effect. After both World Wars, there was a predictable surge after servicemen returned from overseas. But how to account for the drop during the prosperous 1920s and the affluent late '50s and '60s? The lowering birth rate has nothing to do with fertility, says Natality Statistics Chief Arthur A. Campbell; in fact, women are proving more fertile than the mothers of 30 years ago (88 babies for each 1,000 women of childbearing age v. 76 a generation...
...cast. Within 24 hours, they had the patient on crutches and encouraged him to put as much weight on the broken leg as he could tolerate. This proved to be highly variable. "But," said Colonel Brown, "we did not push if there was pain." One thing that spurred the servicemen on was that they had to be either up and in motion, or lying down with the leg elevated to avoid edema and other complications...