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According to an Arizona podiatrist named Wendell W. Rote Jr., all the best sprinters are pigeontoed. Dr. Rote claims to have done considerable re earch in the subject. "It's simply a matter of physics," he explains. "Those who are pigeon-toed generate a line of thrust which is directly forward. They are 100% efficient in utilizing the power in their legs...
...birth day of Buddha, the ground war in Viet Nam quickly made up for lost time with more of the ferociousness and high casualties that have marked it in recent weeks. The Marines ended their sweep through the Demilitarized Zone on the eve of the truce, but quickly thrust back into it when a battalion of Marines to the south was hit by fire from Hill 117 inside the DMZ. The battalion was joined by a second, and the two counterattacked. After a fierce battle in which 41 North Vietnamese and 17 Marines were killed, they drove the enemy...
Operation Hickory's sweep into the DMZ has proved a success by any measure. The Allies killed an estimated 1,500 North Vietnamese and seized a rich cache of enemy supplies, from gas masks and mortar shells to a new So viet 82-mm. recoilless rifle. The thrust also served to isolate enemy forces operating to the south in Quang Tri province, cutting them off from their supply routes and their ammunition caches. But Hickory's cost was high: it contributed heavily to a new record of 337 U.S. deaths for the week ending May 20, plus...
...people. But so many novels have been written that when you pick one up you feel you've read it before. The problem with poetry is that it doesn't necessarily have the connection with life and can be rather obscure. But poetry has the wonderful short thrust. By the time you get to the end of a poem, there's a whole interpretation of life in 70 lines or less. It's hard to get that in a novel, hard to get the heightening, hard to leave things out. And amid the complex, dull horrors...
From Washington, President Johnson kept track of each twist and turn in the haggling through coded cables and scrambler telephone calls, personally ordered the U.S. stand on each sensitive deal. The main thrust of those decisions-forwarded to Geneva through the White House Kennedy Round liaison staff with the secret code name "the potatoes group"-was to swap U.S. industrial concessions for lower European barriers to U.S. farm exports...