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...redoubts long considered impenetrable. Like clouds of giant dragonflies, helicopters hauled riflemen and heavy artillery from base to battlefield in minutes, giving them the advantages of surprise and flexibility. Tactical air strikes scraped guerrillas off jungled ridges, buried them in mazelike tunnels, or kept them forever on the run. Unheard from the ground, giant B-52s of the Strategic Air Command pattern-bombed the enemy's forest hideaways, leaving no sanctuary inviolable...
...liberal" strategy was first employed by Governor Warren and his successor, Goodwin J. Knight. Warren unveiled a program that included such previously unheard of measures as rent control and a fair employment practices act. What he was quite consciously doing was taking enough New Deal-like positions to attract a hefty segment of California's largely non-committed voters...
...British workers, but also the can-do attitudes that the Yanks display. When Ford bought up a pressed-steel plant at Swansea, the British waited skeptically to see how long it would take the Yanks to get it into production for Ford. They got a surprise: in an unheard of six months, three Americans got the plant rolling...
...insists on an unheard-of three weeks' rehearsal for a 90-minute play. To achieve the "first-night feeling" of a Broadway opening, he shoots the play in sequence-an expensive indulgence no Hollywood studio can afford. Under Schaefer's hothouse treatment, actors blossom. Says Schaefer: "They know they're not going to be cut up into little pieces and put back together again at the laboratory...
...forced march to extreme socialism and dictatorship that began in 1958, Premier Abdel Rahman Bazzaz suggested Baghdad's sweeping nationalization laws had gone too far, declared it was time for a turn to private industry and Western foreign in vestments. Moreover, guaranteeing in dividual rights in a fashion unheard of in modern Iraq, Bazzaz, the quiet, Western-oriented technician whom President Abdul Salem Aref installed two months ago, decreed that henceforth no Iraqi citizen may be arrested without a warrant signed personally by himself or two other high officials. Strongman Aref himself chimed in to announce that "Iraqi socialism...