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...Viet Cong guerrillas are almost as much at home in this setting as the crickets, while the government soldiers -many of them city boys, most of them encumbered with heavier equipment and moving in much larger units -are increasingly bogged down in unfamiliar terrain. In recent months U.S. advisers have pondered ways of improving mobility during the rainy season. One new tactic: a buildup in small boats to transport troops across paddyfields. But hustling the East in the rainy season promises to be even more frustrating than usual, though last week five government battalions were ambitiously attempting to flush...
Style in Curtis is closer to old-fashioned capriccios than to surrealism. He puts familiar objects in unfamiliar settings with cavalier abandon. Almost every dreamlike painting is set on an undifferentiated desert stage. Bearded sages tote trays of naked dolls on their heads as if bearing man's fate on their minds, while disputing some unknown subject. A balloon bobs over a barren strand carrying a pipe organ. In The Drummer (see opposite page) the images on flaking and fading billboards alternate between stage flats and solid figures in a wistful play of appearance and reality...
...chief distinction is a planet about ten times as big as Jupiter. No one knows precisely what the inhabitants of that planet look like. But one day in the year 1894, Cygnian scientists, hunched over their radios, heard the familiar static of space crowded into the background by an unfamiliar signal. The message was undecipherable, but its meaning, they decided, was clear. They were receiving greetings from Earth, that little planet in the solar system some 66 trillion miles away...
...Diary of Happy Rockefeller." "A man in the back pew sobbed too. I found out later he was Thruston Morton." When Astronaut John Glenn announced for the U.S. Senate, Monocle proposed "the John Glenn Foundation, devoted to subsidizing needy amateurs who want to start at the top in an unfamiliar profession." Now and then a Monocle crusade moves beyond the pages of the magazine. In New Hampshire's presidential primary this week, Republicans may choose, if they like, Monocle Staffer Marvin Kitman, who managed to get on the ballot. One of Kitman's campaign statements: "I am twice...
COOPER'S CREEK, by Alan Moorehead. The author again strikes out on unfamiliar terrain, this time telling the grim story of Burke and Wills, two 19th century Australian explorers, who first crossed their continent from south to north looking for rich prairies and finding an unsalvageable desert. They died on the way back...