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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were deserted. One North Vietnamese unit had apparently pulled out so fast that its 500 men abandoned their field packs and left their rice still cooking in open pots...
...Viet Nam's Feddersen outdoes them all-both in Yankee horse-trading skill and sheer inventiveness. In a scant 14 months, he unplugged the logistical bottleneck that had plagued the development of the Chu Lai enclave, and in the process set up his outfit as the most efficient unit in the area. "Over here it's a self-help program," says Feddersen, "where you're the self doing the helping...
...rolled to the bed side and locked there. When its top and sides are opened, they form screens to give the patient privacy. With the help of a "grab bar," he can slide from bed to toilet without putting weight on his legs. Though the flushing unit is designed for 12-volt D.C. operation, it can also work on standard house and hospital A.C. A pushbutton activates a mechanism for pumping 81 gallons of deodorant, disinfectant flushing solution -enough, say the manufacturers, for 80 or more uses. Its convenience, they say, extends beyond hospitals and other institutions to the private...
...television series, and all that the survey company asked of its audience was that each guest manipulate a rheostat-like dial during the show-twist it counterclockwise toward "very dull" or clockwise toward "very good" as the mood struck. On both coasts, CBS's Program Analyzer Unit conducts similar screenings, except that CBS's sample viewers operate not dials but buttons-pushing the green one when they like what they see, the red one when they don't. This week the previewers will also be wired for sounding. Audience Surveys Inc. will start using a device that...
Open Up. If the five-member CAB upholds its own enforcement unit's complaints, airlines still need not stop giving VIP treatment to a diplomat whose national dignity needs flattering or to a rock 'n' roll singer who needs protection from the mob. All the petitions ask is that the airlines be required to open the same lounge facilities to everyone...