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Although Saigon had been ready for trouble and had taken special precautions against terrorism by the Communist Viet Cong, May Day had come and gone quietly. But at 5 the next morning, the South Vietnamese capital was jolted by a roar from the harbor. There, the 9,800-ton U.S. aircraft-transport ship Card was sinking fast -it touched bottom in just 24 minutes-into the silt of the Saigon River, a 28-ft. by 3-ft. hole ripped in her starboard side. Apparently Viet Cong agents had placed plastic charges on the hull 10 ft. below the water line...
...problem now is to keep the industry from going overboard trying to make too much of a good thing. Last year, Peru processed 1,159,000 tons of fish meal from a record 6,650,000-ton catch and earned an impressive $116 million from exports. But this year there are fears of a smaller haul, with a sharp fall-off in dollars...
...decided months ago to proceed unilaterally on a plan for mothballing but not dismantling four plutonium reactors, all about ten years old. Still, by the end of this year, the Atomic Energy Commission will activate a new production reactor at Hanford Works, Wash., able to turn out one ton of plutonium (which costs $15,000 per lb.) a year-about as much as three of the older reactors could produce together...
...collected speeches, said enough to prove almost any side of any case. Moreover, he naturally had different views as a frustrated exile, as a revolutionary organizing street fights in Russia, and as the head of a government. Thus the battle of Lenin quotations could go on until won ton turns to borsch, but in essence it shapes up something like this...
...World's Fair looks as if it had been created by some usually normal person who had taken meascaline and allowed his consciousness to go wild. The world's biggest cheese a (seventeen-ton cheddar) sits near a simulated cigar chimney that blows ten-foot smokerings 150 feet into the air. Near the "Festival of Gas" loom nine life-size dinosaurs, and one display boasts a "university for porpoises...