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...indiscriminate destruction in residential areas, the other of selective military targets bombed with crosshair precision-come together only when maps of the military targets are laid over maps of the cities and towns of North Viet Nam. Then it is at once evident that many of those targets lay smack in the middle of the most populous metropolitan and suburban areas in the North. The Hanoi thermal power plant, for instance, was only 1,000 yds. from the very center of the city. A main petroleum storage area was only 200 yds. from the Bach Mai hospital. The town...
Because Chicago's Midway Airport sits smack in the middle of the city's southwest side, the residents of the neat one-story bungalows that crowd the area long ago learned how to read modulations in the engine noises of approaching aircraft. One afternoon last week, as they waited for their children to return home from school, the largely Polish, Lithuanian and Italian inhabitants of the Chicago Lawn area heard a sound they instantly mistrusted. Recalled Mrs. Pat Kjos: "I was in the basement, and I heard a plane go over. I just knew it was in trouble...
DARTMOUTH PENN -- When Dartmouth men smack their lips over road trips, they don't think much farther west than Skidmore or much farther south than New Haven. But the girls of Sewickly State Teachers College better run better hide because the Big Green Indians are pouring out of the woods into the wilds of Philadelphia Dartmouth...
Clint quickly concludes he has joined up with the wrong side. He rights matters soon enough, even going so far as to drive a locomotive smack through some of Sinola's newest buildings. The set seems to have been constructed solely with this event in mind, looking as it does like something plucked from the window of F.A.O. Schwarz...
...some unwinding. He slept long and late, walked occasionally in the forests of tall South Dakota spruce. McGovern even made a pilgrimage to Mount Rushmore, where he consented to pose in profile against the granite likenesses of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt. McGovern thought the idea might smack of hubris, but an aide told him: "Politics is theater...