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...provinces to thirteen (out of 44). First to go were Quang Tin and Quang Ngai in the north. They were followed by Thua Thien; its capital, the old imperial city of Hue, easily fell to the Communists early one morning at midweek. That left only the city of Danang, swollen grotesquely with panicky refugees, as a final enclave in the entire five-province northern area that is referred to as Military Region I (see box, page 33). Some of the government's best units - such as the rangers and the First Division - were defending the city against about...
...still the site of a sprawling, bustling, seemingly impregnable American military compound, filled with thousands of free-spending U.S. Marines and G.I.s. By the time it fell to the Communist attackers last week, Danang had become demoralized and swollen beyond recognition with refugees. TIME Correspondent William Me Whirter spent several days there until he was ordered to depart on an emergency evacuation flight to Saigon. His report...
...trying to buy time. The supplemental aid might allow the Phnom-Penh government to withstand the insurgents" siege until July, when the Mekong River, swollen by heavy rains, will overflow, making it difficult for fighting to continue at its current level. Washington believes that the Khmer insurgents, who have suffered heavy losses in the long assault on the capital, might recognize that it would be better to negotiate than to gird up for yet another bloody dry-season offensive in the autumn...
...stupendous volume! THE GIANT 1975 EDITION! of the Guinness Book lists the highest price ever paid for a stuffed bird, the worst known case of compulsive swallowing ("The patient, who complained only of swollen ankles, was found to have 258 items in his stomach, including...3 pairs of tweezers, 4 nail clippers, 39 nail files, 3 metal chains and 88 assorted coins"), and a footnote that announces, without elaboration, that during 1974 George H. (Babe) Ruth's career record of 714 home runs was surpassed by Hank Aaron...
When the unemployment figures come under fire-as they characteristically do when they are high-they are accused of both exaggerating and understating the "real" extent of joblessness. The overall unemployment rate is Indisputably swollen somewhat by the inclusion in the jobless totals of housewives, students and others who may be only marginally dependent upon regular paychecks. It can be argued, for in stance, that the jobless rates among heads of households (5.4% v. 3.0% a year ago) or adult males (6.2% v. 3.5%) are far better barometers of economic distress than unemployment among teenagers...