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...struggle." Last week Sergeant Gardner, 39, gave his life when he ran into a Viet Cong mortar attack in the jungle 360 miles north of Saigon. Three days later, two U.S. Army officers were killed in a Viet Cong ambush. They brought to six the number of U.S. servicemen killed by the Viet Cong since December...
...defeat, Mitarai scrambled around for capital, wheedled rationed materials for his production line, drummed into his workers the necessity for finely ground lenses and precision parts. Looking for markets, he persuaded the U.S. Occupation forces to stock Canons in post exchanges and ships' stores. The enthusiasm of U.S. servicemen who carried their Canons home to the States launched the camera's foreign reputation. By the early '50s, after news photographers covering the Korean war spread the word that top quality Japanese lenses were at least the equal of German lenses, an export market began to open...
...England last month, "but I can see the writing on the wall. They ain't comin' through." Like thousands of others, the sergeant had ceased to believe in the recurring rumor that the Defense Department would soon lift its ban on Government-paid travel for dependents of servicemen stationed in Europe (TIME, April 13). But last week-after months of angry complaints by separated service families and some sticky questions at presidential press conferences-the Pentagon finally came through...
Originated in 1960, dropped in February 1961, and reinstituted during the Berlin buildup last fall, the travel cutoff was touted as a way to reduce the U.S. gold drain. It succeeded more notably in reducing G.I. morale. Servicemen in Europe were delighted by the announcement-and by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's estimate that 6,000 wives and children would be traveling to Europe monthly...
...Horizontal Lieutenant. Jim Hutton and Paula Prentiss add up to 12 ft. ¼ in. of fun in a tall story about 4,000 chuckleheaded U.S. servicemen locked in unequal struggle with a superior enemy: one sneaky Japanese soldier...