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...putting up in Viet Nam below the DMZ to prevent North Vietnamese infiltration. It consists of an outer line of 8-ft.-high barbed wire and an inner, 5-ft.-high line 10 yds. away. The space between is laced with mines. At irregular intervals along the fence are strung electronic sensing devices, which raise an alarm in adjacent guard posts when an infiltrator tries to cross. The guards in turn alert nearby army units, equipped to react quickly with helicopters and powerful searchlights...
...police themselves were prone to rumors, sometimes spread by their own intelligence reports. Before clearing Lincoln Park on Tuesday night, the cops heard that the demonstrators were armed with sharpened spears and at least one shotgun, and that they had strung piano wire from tree to tree at neck height in order to discourage the advancing police. None of these threats materialized, but they must have aggravated the officers' tense mood as they moved to the attack...
...ways too obscure or subtle to analyze, this great work, written in 1922, vibrated like a tuning fork to the pitch of high-strung post-World War I survivors. They were the generation who responded with masochistic enthusiasm to the question, "Who would have thought Death had undone so many?" and who liked to be told elsewhere that they were "hollow men, the stuffed men, headpiece filled with straw...
...sort of rough neck regatta has been churning the wa ters of the Gulf of Mexico off Loui siana. It is composed of workboats, tugs, barges and even helicopters, and is crewed by hard-hat engineers, welders and derrick workers. Along the Gulf, a group of companies have strung out 1,000 miles of pipeline in a race for some of the richest U.S. natural-gas deposits...
...Bullitt is given a distinct touch of Now by Director Peter Yates. The movie is full of gritty city details and has a streaking pace that would leave Jim Ryun winded. As the beleaguered cop, McQueen is surprisingly subtle, mixing his customary hip swagger with an urban high-strung sensibility; like Oscar in The Odd Couple, he is so tense he has clenched hair...