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There is still no sign, however, that the Viet Cong has suffered any significant loss of its capability to strike when and where it likes. Viet Cong casualties are negated by the hundreds of new Communist infiltrators who stream across the border from "neutral" Laos into South Viet Nam every month. Intelligence officers suspect that the Viet Cong is moving in the new units for a big push during the rainy season, when the government's airlifting and air-striking power will be grounded. Already the reinforcements have emboldened the Viet Cong to strike prepared government positions...
...Guard still occupies its citadels in the big cities and small resorts. It still takes "old" money and some kind of bloodlines to make Boston's Somerset Club, the Philadelphia Club or the St. Louis Country Club. But around such bastions flows a different and more stimulating social stream of people with more education and more to talk about, who want their friends to be intelligent, active and amusing (one of their favorite words...
...British have always been deeply suspicious about poetry, the decimal system, the Gulf Stream and the continent of Europe. Especially the continent of Europe." So wrote the well-known British journalist, Cassandra. Among Demarest's British colleagues on TIME'S London staff, feeling runs high and generally favorable for joining Europe. Says Correspondent Monica Dehn: "We have no option: I think that is the general feeling. As in 1939, there suddenly came a moment when we knew in our bones that war was inevitable; so there is now a feeling that the Common Market is inevitable. For myself...
First countermeasure tried by the fishes' human allies was electrical barriers across stream mouths to keep mature lampreys from swimming upstream to spawn. But many streams were already packed with growing larvae from lamprey eggs, so the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Canadian Department of Fisheries decid ed to destroy the larvae themselves. In search of a selective lamprey-larva poison, they tried more than 6,000 different chemicals on jars containing two lamprey lar vae, two bluegill fingerlings and two small rainbow trout. Some chemicals killed nothing; some killed both larvae and fish. Some killed...
...like it, wait a minute. After two days of conferences, Prince Souvanna conceded that a "millimeter" of dissension had arisen over the allotment of the 19 Cabinet posts, but added cheerfully that the conferees had "almost" crossed the Rubicon, and "we've found it only a tiny stream." Hours later, the tiny stream looked as wide as the Mekong. A final meeting to sign the formal agreement broke down...