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...fire lanes, minefields, 68 watchtowers and an encircling snare of concertina wire that, if stretched out, would measure 10,000 miles. Inside the Barrier is Camp Radcliff (named for the first Cavalryman to die in Viet Nam), where some 2,100 structures are abuilding. They range from wood-and-tin hutments (to "get the troops off the mud") to an elegant lumber-and-natural-rock mess hall that advertises itself as "the Red Hawk...
Loaded with Death. Dengler's teammate was Air Force Lieut. Duane Mar tin, 26, of Denver, whose rescue helicopter had been shot down in September 1965. Twice the pair slept in abandoned villages; then they built a raft and floated downstream until an unexpected waterfall smashed their craft. They came upon a third village that appeared abandoned: it was instead loaded with death. A man sprang from a hut and hit Martin on the leg with a machete; a second swipe hit the stumbling Air Force pilot between shoulders and neck, beheading him. Dengler fled back into the bush...
...colorless Norris Poulson. Sam shaved off the mustache he had worn since he was 17 ("I always wanted to look older") and literally rode into office on trash. A major campaign issue that won the hearts of housewives was his opposition to a since-repealed city ordinance requiring that tin cans be separated from other rubbish...
...average 2.7% two weeks ago. Last week Owens-Illinois, Inc. raised fall prices by 3% on 60% of its glass containers, which package such things as food, drugs, toiletries and soft drinks. Even the Government joined the trend, as the General Services Administration upped the sales price of stockpiled tin from...
...psychological, meteoric, or astral in origin. Nor is sinister Air Force activity confined to the U.S. "What," he asks, "was the mysterious substance that dribbled from a crippled disk over Brazil in 1954?" The Brazilian air force gathered it up and hid it away. (It may have been tin.) The Australian, French, and Indian air forces are also in cahoots with the U.S. Even the Kremlin is involved in a secret pact with the infidel against the UFOs...