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Waste Not. To carry out the study, the U.S. Army sent Captain Peter G. Bourne to Viet Nam. Although he is a psychiatrist, Dr. Bourne decided to use biochemical indicators of servicemen's reactions to combat and the threat of death. In Saigon he made friends with the medical corpsmen of helicopter ambulance crews since they were medically oriented and most likely to cooperate in his demanding routines. They agreed to run a daily check list of their emotional changes...
...Deal seemed appropriate during a week in which he was busily urging action in vast areas of American life. In his message dealing mainly with air pollution, he called for a welter of other conservation and beautification measures as well. Next day he asked Congress to increase benefits to servicemen, veterans and Government employees in war zones by $250 million a year. At the same time, he was readying a major message on crime for a presentation this week...
...noncontagious disease has been positively diagnosed in only 32 servicemen so far, but nine of them have died. And doctors fear that the worst is still to come. Melioidosis has the unpleasant ability to lie dormant in a victim for as long as six years. When it flares up, death occasionally follows within a few days or weeks. The "Vietnamese time bomb," as it has been grimly nicknamed, can be effectively treated by Chloromycetin. The drug, which is used against typhoid, must be given in large doses for at least a month. The prolonged period is essential but not without...
Staunch Ally. Though it is just now sending troops to Viet Nam, Thailand is already in position as a staunch ally. It now harbors 35,000 U.S. servicemen-25,000 from the Air Force, the rest mainly Army engineers and logistics experts. The total represents a threefold increase in the past year. Eleven U.S. fighter-bomber squadrons are stationed in Thailand-at Takhli, Korat, Udorn and Ubon-from which they fly about 75% of all the bombing raids on North Viet Nam. Last year
Much of the news and photographs coming out of Viet Nam last week dealt with some veteran troupers - rather than troops. Playing to as many as 15,000 men in Pleiku and Cam Ranh Bay, Comic Bob Hope marked his 25th year entertaining U.S. servicemen in the field with some well-received variations on well-known routines. Sample: "You Catholics will be glad to know you can now eat Spam on Fridays." Traveling much the same circuit during his first Viet Nam visit, Evangelist Billy Graham was astounded at the size of his turnouts. When 2,500 G.I.s showed...