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Since President Johnson authorized 45,000 more servicemen for Viet Nam -to bring total troop strength there to 525,000 by next July-Congressmen have questioned whether the men can be supplied without jeopardizing U.S. commitments elsewhere or mobilizing the reserves. The answer, says the Pentagon, is that indeed they...
Ready for the Worst. "Before Viet Nam," explained a training officer, "the artillery always had the infantry out in front. Now sometimes we have to do all our own patrolling and perimeter defenses. We want to be prepared for the worst." With as many as 200 American servicemen presently held by the Communists in Viet Nam-though no Army artillery officers have as yet been captured by the enemy-the instructors have devised a fiendishly ingenious array of tortures and tests to ensure that their men know what to expect...
...Defense Department's efforts to develop expertise on Viet Nam are confined mainly to language training. It sent 8,590 servicemen through twelve to 47 weeks of Vietnamese instruction last year, expects to increase that to 11,540 this year...
...Forlorn Servicemen. Katz is a remarkable mixture of opportunist and traditionalist. Born in Odessa of Russian-Jewish parents, he came to the U.S. as an infant, at the age of 14 was given a tiny printing press by his father. He used it to print letterheads and menus, and to turn out a magazine called Boy's Ideal, which eventually gained a circulation of 2,500 at 250 per annual subscription. He took his earnings and went to the University of Pittsburgh, but dropped out during...
Then came World War II-and with it a boom in letter writing, mostly between forlorn servicemen and their wives and girls. Katz came up with Rite-Kit, an inexpensive stationery box that doubled as a writing surface. He formed his own company, and by war's end it was grossing $1,500,000 a year...