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...DELTA: The first test may well come in the rice-rich Mekong Delta, the South's most populous region. On Sept. 1, the U.S. 9th Infantry Division turned its base at Dong Tarn over to the South Vietnamese Army. During its more than two years of operations, the 9th all but eliminated main-force Viet Cong units, which had previously controlled the area. Now, responsibility rests with the ARVN 7th Division, which is working hard to shuck its former reputation as the "Search and Avoid Division." "Ever since your 9th Division left," Colonel Tran Tien Khang, commander...
...determine how widespread racial problems really are, Terry spent six months covering U.S. units in the field, traveling from the Demilitarized Zone in the north to Dong Tarn in the Delta. Says Terry, "These travels were often unofficially discouraged. In many places, white officers and sergeants looked on suspiciously as I drank, ate or talked with black Marines, soldiers and sailors in their barracks, mess halls, tanks and foxholes." One black Army sergeant major urged him to tone down his Afro hair style before he met the troops; Terry discovered that the sergeant had ordered his men to cut their...
Cripple Crown. Though Majestic Prince went to the post as the 13-to-10 favorite, he was bucking more formidable odds. In the past two decades, only four other horses had come into the Belmont with a chance of taking the Triple Crown. Tim Tarn in 1958, Carry Back in 1961, Northern Dancer in 1964 and Kauai King in 1966 all were defeated...
Hayakawa, 62, has only to toss his tarn into the ring to become a formidable contender for office. If an election were held today, Field's California Poll indicated, the Democratic educator would trounce incumbent Republican Max Rafferty, a hard-lining conservative, for state Superintendent of Public Instruction. Hayakawa could also provide a strong challenge to Republican Senator George Murphy when the former song-and-dance man seeks a second term next year. Only Governor Ronald Reagan seems safe...
...blonde (Camilla Sparv), supposedly Arizona-born and bred, speaks with a heavy Swedish accent. The Indian maiden (Julie Newmar) is a red-skinned Stupefyin' Jones, left over from the musical Li'I Abner. In the movie's sole sex scene, she is submerged in a tarn, seemingly nudish but actually prudish in a body stocking...