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...classic military historian. It offers no vast clash of arms; no divisions sweep and pivot to the grand strategy of latter-day Clausewitzes. Instead there are quick, dirty fire fights-usually on no more than platoon or company scale-set in copses of bamboo and thorn vine so thick that men kill at a range of 10 ft. without having once seen each other. It is a war of leg-shearing booby traps and dung-smeared punji stakes, of professional skill and personal courage. It is also a war that is tailor-made for a writer like S.L.A. Marshall...
...never had time for before. Brenda Conner, a biology student, spends most of her day working on a pet project-a study of the distribution of histones (basic proteins) in chromosomes. One group of students organized a classic-films discussion group. Others spend the day tutoring children in Vine City, an Atlanta Negro slum...
...VINE (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). Although it was filmed mainly in the Holy Land, this life of Christ achieves a new dimension as it ranges from a shell-wracked battlefield in Viet Nam to a New York City ghetto and a Paris fashion salon...
...reach 75% before long. New York producers plan to benefit most-and they archly dismiss the lushly productive vineyards of their California rivals. Says Ernest I. Reveal, president of Widmer's Wine Cellars, Inc., the No. 2 New York vintner (after Taylor): "We like the fact that the vine has to hustle its bustle a bit to give us the required grape...
Even more to be deplored than our tendency to ignore the results of research and evaluation in shaping public policy is our tendency to undertake great and promising enterprises of just this kind only to forget about them and allow them to wither on the vine as other more interesting subjects come along. Let me cite, for example, the research and evaluation programs that accompanied the demonstration projects funded by the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime, established in 1961. As few programs in the history of American government, this one set out consciously and openly...