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...knew the facts, Moscow seemed eerily normal. Newspapers kept complaining about poor food production, couples on crowded dance floors kept doing their bunny hug and wishing they could find out something about the twist, soldiers with their girls wandered to the Lenin mausoleum to hear the Kremlin bells toll midnight...
...government offensive against the Viet Cong stronghold of Tayninh province, 50 miles northwest of Saigon. The government mission was a failure; forewarned, the Reds slipped away into the bush, lost only 45 men killed in seven days. But in the central highlands the Viet Cong did exact a heavy toll. From a jungle hiding spot, their fire ripped into Cordell's helicopter and sent it crashing to earth, killing the captain and two companions, bringing to 30 the number of U.S. troops killed in action in Viet...
...crash, officially listed as an accident, brought the toll of U.S. war dead in South Viet Nam since last December to 27. Of them, 14 were killed in accidents "associated" with combat, 13 in action...
...Rachel Carson's lucidity rather than the substance of her new book. Pests kill ten times as much timber as forest fires do. Civilization has to live with careful use of pesticides, just as we must live with the automobile and other devices that can cause their toll through improper...
...human chains to guide each other outside. Photographs of the blasted mass of wreckage had an eerie unreality, suggesting the paintings of Lyonel Feininger. Fire Commissioner Edward Thompson later diagnosed the disaster as a probable failure of automatic devices designed to regulate the boiler's water level. The toll: 21 dead, 86 injured...