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Near completion is "the Barrier," a ten-mile defense perimeter consisting of cleared fire lanes, minefields, 68 watchtowers and an encircling snare of concertina wire that, if stretched out, would measure 10,000 miles. Inside the Barrier is Camp Radcliff (named for the first Cavalryman to die in Viet Nam), where some 2,100 structures are abuilding. They range from wood-and-tin hutments (to "get the troops off the mud") to an elegant lumber-and-natural-rock mess hall that advertises itself as "the Red Hawk...
That leaves only one batting honor left for the most popular living player to snare-Babe Ruth's alltime record of 714 homers. Will Willie make it? He personally doesn't think so. "I'll never pass Ruth," he says. "Maybe some guy coming up, like Hank Aaron, who is three years younger and has a friendly fence in Atlanta now, will pass...
...stuck in a barb wire snare...
...points out, "if you start talking about putting on extra taxes, you may further accentuate the trend toward businesses leaving the central city and make its financial plight even worse than it was before. The whole notion that the city can lift itself by its own bootstraps is a snare and a delusion." Thus cities have no recourse but to go hat in hand to the Federal Government, which has taken billions in taxes from them and returned only token sums...
...television. Its spirit is borrowed from Sex and the Single Girl, which enjoyed a huge sale at book counters and furnished the title for a moneymaking movie. For TV, the screen has become a gigantic keyhole through which viewers are invited to watch a series of career-type girls snare a date for the night. Out of girl-sight, three bachelors-at least one a celebrity-parry questions from the husband hunters. Samples: "How would you go about telling your date that she had a dress that was maybe too short or too tight?" "They can't make...