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...Sock of Rice. Missing with Burrows was A.P.'s Henri Huet, 43. Born in Viet NaM. Huet had photographed the Indochinese war for more than 20 years and in 1967 was a Capa award winner. Also missing were U.P.L.'s Kent Potter, 23, a three-year Viet Nam veteran, and Freelance Photographer Keisaburo Shimamoto, on assignment for Newsweek. Their presumed deaths brought to 32 the number of newsmen killed in Indochina since...
...taken a 75% salary cut -to $15,000 a year-for the duration. "We won't go under." Yet the two sides are so far apart that no one expects an early return to work. More than most union men, the pilots have been in a position to sock savings away for a long, cold winter...
...helmet pulled down. I was scowling even. I felt this is my big day. And these are my men. And we're going to end this whole damned war tomorrow. I'm superior. I thought, I'm the American from across the sea. I can really sock it to these people...
...They'll try to sock it to a brother if they can," said Pfc. Alfred Exum Jr. of Denver, an assistant gunner on a 102 howitzer in the 82nd Airborne. "Just like civilian life, the white doesn't want to see the black get ahead...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Ralph W. Sock-man, 80, famed radio preacher who propounded Christian verities to millions of Americans each Sunday from 1928 to 1962 over NBC's National Radio Pulpit; of cancer; in Manhattan. Sockman was minister of Manhattan's Christ Church, Methodist, and the author of numerous inspirational books (The Higher Happiness, How to Believe). But his largest audience was on the air waves, where, as he once put it, "I pitched my sermons on a level somewhere between Reinhold Niebuhr and Norman Vincent Peale...