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...common sight in Saigon is the row upon row of sidewalk stalls heaped high with everything from hair spray to Scotch to cartons of Salem cigarettes-goods that obviously were filched from American supplies or illegally bought from G.I.s and others with privileges at the post exchange. Last week in Saigon's "PX Alley," police dramatized a new drive to stamp out the huge black-market traffic in American goods by confiscating illegal items from scores of sidewalk shops and tossing them onto a huge bonfire. From now on, pledged a senior police commander, Saigon's sidewalk vendors...
...Viet Cong call "the little black rifle"-the light, fast-firing, plastic-stocked M-16 automatic rifle carried by most of the combat troops in South Viet Nam. At 7.6 lbs., the M-16 is scarcely the size of a farm boy's "varmint" rifle; yet it can spray short bursts at the rate of 750 rounds per minute, though reloading time cuts the effective rate to a far lower figure. Its muzzle velocity is so great that within 100 yds.-the range of most Viet Nam fire fights-an M-16 bullet generates supersonic shock waves that...
...winter and spring pruning and "pulling leaves." This last job involves plucking the leaves from the grape clusters early in the summer so that the grapes will be able to develop fully. Pluckers travel about two miles a day on their knees, and return home with burning sulfur insecticide spray all over their bodies and in their eyes...
...public. And they are the people who buy the tickets; the critics get in free. To make successful opera in New York you do Carmen, Boheme and Traviata, and then Traviata, Boheme and Carmen, Stage a modern work and during the third performance you could put on a blindfold, spray the house with a machine gun and be pretty sure that you would never hit anybody...
...President was hit once, as was graphically portrayed when his hands clutched his throat. An instant later, Governor Connally, seated on a jump seat in front of Kennedy, began to turn, and slowly slumped back against his wife. Then the President's head jerked; a ghastly pink spray flashed around his head, then disappeared as he fell toward Jackie on his left. The first shot was not fatal; the second was. The time between the two bullets' impact was between 4.8 and 5.6 seconds, said the commission. Connally, too, had been badly hurt: a bullet slammed into...