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...those who do not qualify as legal travelers, there is always the more hazardous route past the minefields, barbed wire, watchtowers and border patrols that hem Communist frontiers. Last week two Hungarians escaped to Austria by flying their tiny sports plane at treetop level all the way from Budapest. A pair of Rumanians recently hid for three days under a truckload of tomatoes bound for Austria. Another rode into Vienna in a refrigerated railway car, where he spent seven days and nights huddled between two sides of beef, nibbling raw meat for nourishment. One Hungarian even ran a stolen train...
...winter when he suggested that human bodies began balding as soon as warm clothes ended the need for tufted torsos. Scoffing, one writer charged Glass with Lamarckianism, the discredited 1809 theory of French Naturalist Jean Baptiste Lamarck, who argued that giraffe necks grew long because the animals preferred eating treetop leaves and that such acquired characteristics could be passed on to offspring. In rebuttal, Glass argued that man's use of fire as well as clothing changed his environment enough "to make hairiness an inconsequential feature, except on the more exposed parts of his anatomy." Countered another scientist: What...
...hills in northern Thailand, the tiny, single-engine aircraft picked its way through the mist, in search of a village airstrip. "I think that's it," the pilot shouted to a companion over the whine of the engine. Dipping down through the clouds, the plane came in at treetop level, then bounced into a 700-ft. clearing. Eager tribeswomen in turbans and blue-striped frocks rushed toward the visitors, smiling through betel-stained teeth. Their menfolk set about happily unloading medicine, food, seed and other supplies. "This is the one place in Southeast Asia," the pilot beamed, "where...
Once they get there, the G.I.s of the future will use many techniques and devices developed from the military's experience in Viet Nam. The Army's Limited War Laboratory has already shipped 22 projects to Viet Nam for evaluation-from leech repellent to treetop landing pads-and is currently working on 85 more. More important, the U.S. will need to put into practice the sad lessons of Viet Nam. To stop trouble before it reaches the big shooting stage, it will have to learn the art of pacification better than it has. The U.S. will need...
SAMs-in an oval site comprising vans and camouflaged tents, squatting in the center of a web of dirt roads about eleven miles from the highway bridge. The missile hunters flashed in at treetop level, pumping cannon shells and slipping loose their 750-lb. bombs. For 20 minutes, the Thunderchiefs slammed away; there were no further missile shots. "They're going to be working on those vans for three, four years-if they even fiddle with 'em," said Air Force Captain Robert L. Harris, of Long View, Texas. "You can't knock 20-mm. holes in those...