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...Charlie. Some six miles away on the road to Plei Me, the tank-led relief column was braced for ambush. When it erupted from a thorn thicket, the tanks wheeled into something resembling the old wild West wagon-train circle-but there the similarity ended. Loaded with heavy canister (finned, inch-long small shot), the tank guns blazed away point-blank at the jungle, mowing the brush to stubble as if a huge rotary mower had cut a 40-yd. swath on each side of the road. Dozens of shredded enemy bodies-arms, legs, heads, viscera-were plastered against...
...serialized in 37 newspapers and magazines, and much has already been written about its accounts of such controversial episodes as Kennedy's choice of a Vice President and his blunder at the Bay of Pigs. Even so, those willing to hack through the whole thing, with its forbidding thicket of words (more than 350,000), should find the effort worthwhile. Despite the foliage. Kennedy comes through as an immensely appealing man, one who ''followed Franklin's advice of 'early to bed, early to rise' only when he could not otherwise arrange his schedule...
Police chased the car until it crashed into a telephone pole. The driver, Willie James Lamar, 21, a Negro, jumped out, was found moments later hiding in a thicket. Charlie Lee Hopkins, also 21 and Negro, was arrested three hours later and, along with Lamar, booked for murder...
Lyndon Said Go. The big bombers' target was "the O.K. Corral,"* a desolate 1-by-2-mi. patch of wilderness just 33 miles north of Saigon. There, according to intelligence reports, as many as four Viet Cong battalions were massing in the dense thicket near Bencat for another devastating attack on government positions along Route 14, a mere 30 miles north of Saigon. In the hope of avoiding a disaster like the one fortnight ago at nearby Dongxoai (rhymes with wrong's why), U.S. planners in Saigon searched for a means to trap the concealed Communist troops...
...Courts," he said, "ought not to enter this political thicket." Frankfurter's ad vice was heeded until last year, when the court set forth its historic one-man, one-vote rule for congressional and state legislative elections. Those decisions landed all courts in the thicket - and so thick was the grove that it seemed to many that the Supreme Court was not even trying to pick its way out. Last week the court hardly clarified matters. In four terse de cisions...