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President Nixon pointed to the current low U.S. casualty rate as a sign that the war was winding down. In Saigon last week, the U.S. command reported that October's total of 409 battle deaths was the lowest monthly toll since 1966. Nixon stressed that a low "level of enemy activity" must accompany U.S. withdrawal. Even as he spoke, the enemy stepped up its activities in what U.S. officers described as the beginning of the winter offensive. Communist units launched scattered attacks, and Saigon's defenses were hit for the first time since September...
...York's Taconic Parkway with the cheerleaders. The toll-taker there told me that hitching is illegal, but that he didn't care what I did. He'd hitched as a boy. "It's illegal to use our john, too," he said, "but if you take a leak outside. they'll get you for indecent exposure. I'm all for it-not indecent exposure, but I still like my sex." He told me to pretend I didn't know him as I thumbed two feet away from his booth. But he waved goodbye when I got picked...
Protests and Payoffs. With punchy headlines and a tabloid format, the paper unflaggingly alerts its 10,000 readers to each week's environmental toll -an oil spill off Casco Bay, a fish kill at Mystery Lake, a historic barn razed at the University of Maine. Much vitriol is aimed at the paper industry, a major source of water pollution in the state. The Times recently flayed a new wave of fly-by-night operators who reopen abandoned paper mills for "short-term profit and long-term pollution...
...That one's a Toll House...
...give-you-coffee approach. Later that afternoon, when I went to Dean Ford's office to borrow a copy of the 1954 committee report, I found that the tactic was fairly ubiquitous. In the receptionist's office was a large platter of brownies and raisin and Toll House cookies. I had been there only 15 minutes when I succumbed...