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...standing there," one of the eye witnesses related, "when someone said 'Get to the rear of the store.' I looked up to see a dark-complexioned curly-haired man holding a small cocked snub-nosed pistol. He repeated the order, and I walked to the rear past the cash register. Cahaly was opening it for the other...
...Cover) One of the American heroes of the Viet Nam war is not a man but a machine-a snub-nosed, whale-tailed airplane that looks as if it would be lucky to get off the ground. Officially designated the C-130 Hercules, it is known as the "Herky Bird" to thousands of U.S. servicemen in Viet Nam, and it provides them with the sustenance of life. The cargo-carrying Herky Bird works when monsoon rains keep supply ships offshore. It flies ammunition and chow to artillery units isolated by the Viet Cong, now moves 65% of the military...
...cast is pallid. Frank Finlay's Iago is a meager adversary in all respects. Maggie Smith plays a resolute and poignant Desdemona, though her open, clear-eyed virtue ought to vindicate itself as easily as Iago's obvious machinations condemn him. As Cassio, Derek Jacobi seems a snub-nosed, undergraduate type whom no lion among men could seriously consider a rival...
...camouflaged their labors with brush. Though the camp's 400 montagnard defenders were patrolling assiduously up to ten miles away, no one thought to poke around his own front yard. Into each Communist pit went tidy stacks of ammo, a Chinese automatic rifle at one end, an ugly, snub-snouted 12.5-mm. antiaircraft machine gun at the other. Every emplacement was manned by a single gunner and designed so that he could scuttle quickly between his submachine-gun, trained on the camp, and the antiaircraft gun whenever fighter-bombers appeared...
...Broadway Producer David Merrick, who is not himself the most pacific of men, Miller's headline-making snub was "a slap in the face of the President." Growled Merrick: "We finally get a subsidy in the theater, and we have an Administration that is in favor of the arts, and then Mr. Miller has to make his statement. All the children who work in the theater and in films should stay out of politics. They are always completely naive about...