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Denying Food & Taxes. In a typical operation in the intermediate war, an Air Cav company quietly surrounds a village in the predawn hours, throwing a cordon around its sleeping inhabitants. At dawn, they tighten the noose, moving into the village and taking watchful control. They do nothing else unless, as often happens, a Viet Cong among the villagers foolishly tries to escape the net. Next, in flutters a giant Chinook helicopter carrying a contingent of Vietnamese National Police armed with burp guns and long metal rods. The policemen question and search the villagers, poke the ground with their rods...
...comes from the Federal Reserve Board, which has been pumping credit into the economy so fast that it has expanded the money supply at an annual rate of 7.7% so far this year, against only 2.2% during the 1966 tight-money squeeze. Looming inflation should impel the Fed to tighten up soon, but if it does many financial men fear the Treasury will be hard put to borrow $10.6 billion before year's end to pay the nation's soaring bills. "I think the Fed has been had," said former Chief White House Economist Raymond Saulnier last week...
Sheet, a line used to tighten or slacken the sails...
...other nylon fabrics is primarily a matter of weave," says Weinberger, who is keeping the pattern a secret until his patent is granted. "It works by diverting the impact energy from the impact point." Threads of the new material, says Davis Aircraft President Robert L. Davis, "pull together and tighten up when struck by a bullet, force it to wobble, then actually pucker around the projectile and stop...
...Newark's "Ironbound" district (so named for its wrap-around railroad lines), has a collection of 25 "cool" jazz records, and is saving for a plate to replace his missing front teeth (lost in an accident years ago). Says Smith, a quiet and articulate man: "I got to tighten up my upper register and study a little harmony." Before last week he had been ticketed five times-not much by cabby standards-for minor traffic violations...