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...Mention Sunset Strip to anybody over 30, and he will recall the twelve-block stretch between Beverly Hills and Hollywood as the playground of the stars, the place where the Gables and Grables, the Harlows and Hayworths came in their long black limousines and super-convertibles to gambol at Giro's, Mocambo and the Trocadero...
...longer, not in the psychedelic '60s. Today, Sunset Strip is a new kind of playground: a wild weekend happening for youth from all over the Los Angeles area. It is a sight to behold...
...plaster castles are impeccably constructed and the faces of the principals (Peter McEnery and Susan Hampshire) are so nice that they make a theater feel like church. Anybody who sees any redeeming historical merit in this agreeable guff would believe that the River Shannon flows down the middle of Sunset Boulevard...
...combat, the Allies had poured 1,000,000 artillery shells and 2,200 air strikes into the fray, killing 992 Red infantrymen. South of Danang the Marines were searching out Viet Cong in Operation Macon, and in the rice-rich Delta, two search-and-destroy missions -Sioux City and Sunset Beach-were aimed at denying the enemy his breadbasket. South of Tuy Hoa on the coast, the 101st Airborne's Operation Seward has robbed enemy granaries of 2,500 tons of rice-enough to feed 32,500 men for a year-as well as accounting for nearly 200 enemy...
...damaged 22 others, and reported a large secondary explosion that meant it was carrying ammunition or oil. About an hour later, more Skyhawks hit it with Bullpup missiles and bombs, knocked out the locomotive and four more freight cars, turned the track in front of it to noodles. Before sunset, the whole train was destroyed-and U.S. airmen had carried out 146 separate missions, a record for a single day over North Viet Nam. The record did not stand for long. By week's end, U.S. airmen had racked up 156 missions over North Viet Nam-all of them...