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...refugees who stayed on in Hué found spots on the grassy banks of the Perfume River if they were lucky, in fetid vacant buildings if they were not. "Highway 1 is the setting for this Asian Grapes of Wrath,"' reported TIME Correspondent David DeVoss. "Some families ride atop trucks, others are jammed as many as five to a Honda, but most of them walk. Exhaustion, hunger and heat are not the only enemies they face. Land mines, carefully planted each night by the North Vietnamese, take their daily toll in suffering...
Built seven years ago on the fertile farm lands of Scottsbluff (pop. 14,000), the college is bankrupt, a poignant relic of the rush for a college education in the 1960s. When it folded eight months ago, the 30 faculty members scattered, like the students, leaving behind nine vacant buildings, 5,000 unsold yearbooks, 75 microscopes, an airplane, $7,300,000 in debts and Dr. Weese...
...gesturing toward the dozing crew of a ramshackle Vietnamese Air Force "Huey." "These guys can't fight and won't fight. You'll never catch them in the air after 5 p.m. Just look at that," he laughed as a troop-laden chopper lurched toward a vacant landing...
...challenge them. If the Gambino family literally buried its opposition in New York, then Carlo Gambino could, if he wished, control the entire national rackets combine of La Cosa Nostra. He might become what the Mafia calls capo di tutti capi -boss of all bosses. The job has been vacant since Salvatore Maranzano was assassinated...
Champion's dances fall into the competent-but-uninspired category. The same cannot be said for poor Elaine Joyce who, as Sugar, has good legs, vacant eyes, an inability to read lines with any degree of zest, and limited vocal abilities. Tony Roberts plays Jerry, the guy who falls in love with her while impersonating a millionaire; although he tends to sound like a young Walter Mathau, he's a pleasant enough fellow and this whole experience shouldn't be too much of a drag on his career. On the other hand, Robert Morse--whom I find fey and distasteful...