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...when the air cools and the water stills, the President takes to 22-mile-long Lake Lyndon B. Johnson, often searching out a secluded cove where he and his party can have privacy from peering eyes. Clamping down his yellow golfer's cap, clenching the wheel like a vise, Johnson really opens up the throttle, leaving broad wakes and gaping mouths behind him. He goes so fast, in fact, that the Secret Service has had to buy two new speedboats to keep up with him when he is at full throttle (four boats in all accompany him). "Here comes...
...early evening in Danang, a city blasted and weary of civil war. For eight days the six battalions of loyal Vietnamese troops dispatched from Saigon by Premier Nguyen Cao Ky had been closing the vise, block by block, street by street, on 800 rebellious soldiers in the military capital. Shattered trees, some completely sawed off by gunfire, lined Danang's bullet-spattered boulevards. Pocked walls, splintered doors and decapitated houses testified to the city's agony, in which over 80 had died and more than 400 were wounded...
...Mekong Delta, South Vietnamese Rangers on Operation Dan Chi (People's Determination) used American helicopters to trap another Viet Cong battalion. The Reds were part of the crack Soctrang Mobile Force, an outfit whose mobility failed it last week. Caught in a vise by three Ranger battalions, the Communists made their stand in a mangrove swamp near the village of Vinh Chau and suffered 262 dead...
...then, the mission itself was far from O.K. It had not achieved such scheduled goals as Astronaut Scott's two-hour walk in space, the first vise of a power tool in space and a host of other scientific experiments. In Houston the next move was obvious: Arm strong's decision to use his vital re-entry rockets prematurely meant that the spacecraft must be returned to earth before it ran out of the necessary fuel for controlling reentry...
...convenience for guests. He eventually signed up 4,000 hotels, sold more to banks looking for new-account come-ons, others to airlines (which give the packs to grounded passengers). The Guest Pac Corp. also sells packs to the Salvation Army and the Red Cross for disaster-area vise and for distribution to Viet Nam wounded in Army hospitals...