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...Grinder. The siege of Plei Me began two unsuspected days before the first shot was fired. Up to the triangle-shaped fort 20 miles from the Cambodian border crept sappers from two recently infiltrated North Vietnamese regiments. Working in darkness just 40 yards from the camp's wire-strung perimeter (see aerial photo), the cautious bo doi (infantrymen) cut trenches and L-shaped firing pits, hauled the dirt away in baskets and 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...
Twentieth century geneticists gradually evolved the theory that whether an organism is to be microbe, mouse or man, its biochemical functions are determined by genes strung together to form chromosomes. Each gene is believed to be a submicroscopic but still "giant" molecule of a nucleic acid, usu ally deoxyribonucleic acid (DNAJ, but in some viruses ribonucleic acid (RNA) Each gene, the theory held, directly controls the cells' production of some one specific chemical-in most cases an enzyme, one of the body's countless catalysts that are essential to nearly all its functions...
...sound." On tour he travels with his own Steinway ("Can you imagine Oistrakh playing with Stern's violin?") and personal piano tuner, 71-year-old Cesare Augustus Tallone. With a surgeon's knowledge of the piano's inner workings, Michelangeli treats his Steinway like a high-strung child, recently relinquished it to be overhauled, explaining: "It's still too young and hasn't been broken in yet." For the Paris concert, Tallone scoured the city for days to find a substitute piano, then spent 20 hours preparing it for the master's hands...
...track, coasted home a comfortable 31 sec. in front. At Spa last month, thunderstorms made the trip a little dicier than Jim expected ("It was damn dangerous out there"), but he still scored his fourth-straight victory in the Belgian Grand Prix and left the rest of the field strung out 1½ miles behind...
...sight. On his devious journey to guerrilla headquarters, Okamura was escorted at a killing pace through the jungle by a 73-year-old woman guide, then was taken in hand by a Viet Cong commissar who wore a cowboy hat, an orange shirt, and had a police whistle strung round his neck...