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...week's end the patrolling soldiers were desperately trying to keep the two races apart. No one had an accurate count of the toll, but so far in lagan's strike at least 33 East Indians and Negroes have been killed and more than 2,000 injured. As for Cheddi and his Chicago-born Communist wife Janet, they still clamor for immediate independence from Britain and noisily accuse "American imperialists" of stirring up opposition to their rule...
...hammers out local phone rates with state commissions, but in Texas it has to dicker with no fewer than 1,500 town councils. Rates vary widely, depending upon how much money A.T. & T. has invested in an area, how many numbers residents can call without paying a toll and what the local commission will allow. When commissions agree to give A.T.&T. increases, they sometimes find it politic to hold local rates steady but to raise the charges for phone installation and for such extras as color phones. Despite some increases, rates have not risen as much as the overall...
Miserable Story. Casualty totals for April, during which the Viet Cong continued to roam the Mekong Delta almost at will, were the highest so far. The government suffered 610 killed, 1,630 wounded, 390 missing or captured (v. an officially estimated 1,700 Viet Cong dead). The toll of Americans last month was six killed, 101 wounded. According to one U.S. official, General Nguyen Khanh's "clear-land-hold" program in the delta is making "practically no indent at all," and Long An province south of Saigon is "a miserable story...
Comedy of Terrors is a lushly produced little parody of Hollywood scream fare, hopefully labeled a "horroromp." Vincent Price and the late Peter Lorre play a team of New England undertakers. When business is slack, the two wheel off in the hearse to raise the death toll, chew the scenery, and feed each other jokes. But the jokes lack nourishment. Foppishly appraising a coffin, Price sneers: "Nobody in their right mind would be caught dead in that thing." True enough. So Basil Rathbone gets buried alive, while Boris Karloff, in a minor role, eyes his former gloom-mates...
...third 500-man battalion, making it the Viet Cong's first regimental-size operation. Then the Communists stood and fought half a dozen battles that blazed for five days, inflicting the heaviest government casualties of any engagement-some 200 dead and wounded. The Reds suffered a similar toll...