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Saigon announced that in the previous week 542 Americans had died in action, only one short of the record toll set only two weeks before. So far this year, 3,254 Americans have been killed v. 9,353 for all of last year-and, at current casualty rates, this week the 20,000th U.S. serviceman will fall on the battlefields of Viet...
...socially approved, or at least provided, outlet for violent behavior. Some years ago, the British novelist L.P. Hartley envisioned a future world in which public automobile accidents were staged much as the ancient Romans once held gladiatorial games. Certainly the constant broadcasting of the "holiday death toll" over festivals such as Christmas has had something of this quality...
...Marines swept onto the long south wall overlooking the Perfume riverbank, a position that finally gave the allies sturdy positions on each wall of the Citadel. The Marines celebrated by triumphantly running up the Stars and Stripes in full view of modern Hué, across the river. The death toll was among the most expensive of the war: nearly 450 allied dead, including some 100 U.S. Marines, and so many casualties that the 5th Battalion's 1st Regiment was finally left at half strength...
Besides fidgeting through an auto-industry sales dip last year, the Ford Motor Co. had to sweat out a seven-week national strike by the United Automobile Workers. Totting up the toll, the nation's second biggest automaker last week reported 1967 sales of $10.5 billion, down from $12.2 billion in 1966. The earnings picture was even bleaker. With the strike accounting for a fourth-quarter loss of $109.1 million, Ford's overall profits last year skidded from $621 million in 1966 to $84.1 million -a drop...
...trial, and that seriously threatens to have such an effect." Contempt rulings would have to be backed by juries, and according to Committee members, penalties would be reprimands and fines, not prison terms, for editors and publishers. The threatened interference with the first amendment seems mild compared with the toll now taken by violations of the sixth...