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Proof of that came during last month's fierce fighting around Plei Me -a South Viet Nam terminus of the trail. North Vietnamese fought fiercely to keep the U.S. 1st Cavalry out of the mountains above Plei Me, expending vast supplies of ammunition in the process. The any-cost resistance convinced many Americans that the area is a major stockpile site of the Red forces...
...absurdity of such a concession to ill-informed public opinion was illustrated last week with the tale of Lieut. Colonel Leon Utter, 39, who was leading his Marine battalion in a search-and-clear operation on a steep hillside near the port of Qui Nhon, eastern terminus of vital Route 19 to the highlands, which was reopened in Operation Ramrod after months under Viet Cong control. Utter soon found the enemy: 20 fully armed Viet Cong troops who promptly took refuge in a nearby network of tunnels. It would have been easy enough for Utter and his men to wipe...
...biggest of the new, the 1,600-mile Colonial Pipeline up the East Coast, last week advanced to within 500 ft. of its terminus at Linden, N.J. Trans-Canada Pipe Lines has just applied to the Federal Power Commission for approval to build a $200 million pipeline that will dip over the border into Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. Three companies are competing to build a second gas line to link Texas and southern California at a cost exceeding $300 million. In Washington State the Olympic oil products pipeline is pushing southward to serve Seattle and Portland with oil from...
Michael Ponce de Leon, 42, shows most dramatically how far the print-makers have gone past the conventional idea of pressing paper to a plane surface. To make his Terminus, he printed seven colors off a metal plate slathered with key chains, pebbles, even a straw place mat. He runs wet paper through his hydraulic press, which is capable of 10,000 Ibs. pressure, gets an elaborate multicolor abstract...
City planners have often pronounced the Treasury Building, at the White House end of the avenue, to be "misplaced," because it blocks the presidential residence from view down Pennsylvania. The new report turns this deficit into asset: the White House, the council members have perceived, is less impressive a terminus for the street than the colonnaded Treasury...