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...heads without seeing them. "Suddenly the foliage seemed to get up and run, revealing Viet Cong in black pajamas with camouflaged helmets running across soggy paddies," said Munsey. In five minutes the Viet Cong dashed nearly 1,100 yards, cut off the road. The army troops dispersed into a swamp, but as they did, another guerrilla column turned up at their rear. The government toll: 26 dead, 60 wounded, 136 missing, including a U.S. Army sergeant...
...Trip South. The trail to the Mississippi swamp started on the serene, sycamore-shaded campus of the West ern College for Women at Oxford, Ohio. There, two weeks ago, an in doctrination course started for some 800 Northern college students who had volunteered to spend the summer in Mississippi working toward increased Negro voting registration. The project was sponsored by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), a combine of four civil rights organizations, and by the National Council of Churches...
...bulletin. Then, Tuesday afternoon, a telephone tip on the station wagon's whereabouts came to the FBI office in Meridian. Agents rushed to the northeast corner of Neshoba County, found the gutted car in a blackberry thicket 40 feet off State Highway 21 near the dank Bogue Chitto Swamp. The site, twelve miles northeast of Philadelphia, was in the opposite direction from which Deputy Price said he saw the civil rights workers going when they left Sunday night. By the time the law got there, Choctaw Indians from a nearby reservation had stripped three hubcaps from the station wagon...
Tourists Only. When Auric first took on the weighty title of Administrateur de la Réunion des Théátres Lyriques Nationaux, he took on a ponderous load of problems as well (TIME, April 27, 1962). Mired in a vast swamp of bureaucracy, militant unions and second-rate talent, the state-operated Paris Opera had foundered helplessly for nearly two decades. Five postwar administrators had promised revolution, only to sink quietly into the morass. Some tried staging productions à la Folies-Bergère, featuring flights of ballerinas being hoisted to heaven on wires, madly flapping their arms...
...exhibits at the fair, it shows how pre-Columbian goldsmiths of America beat, hammered and cast little miracles of design. For motifs they used the swamp and sea creatures that they knew best-the frog, snake, shark, turtle, crab and crocodile. These ancient masters also made the malleable metal wriggle with curvilinear life: 2-in.-thick ear plugs, nose pendants, golden mustachios that covered the mouth. They drank from gold goblets and spangled themselves with baubles that were hinged to bounce in the light. They abstracted condors into broadtailed triangles and sought symmetry in two-headed animals...