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Last week's raids left only five major targets of military value still unscathed. They were the Gia Lam airbase near Hanoi; the Phuc Yen airbase, 15 miles northeast of the capital; the railway terminal and power plant in Lao Cai, a North Vietnamese town that sits directly on the Chinese border; the piers at the auxiliary port of Hon Gai; and, of course, the docks at Haiphong. But unless the U.S.'s new choke-and-destroy air strategy is suddenly curtailed, all those objectives, except perhaps the Haiphong docks, are soon likely to feel the blast...
...painter, though a good artist, was a bad man who demanded bribes from the girls and painted only those who had a yen for him. When the most beautiful candidate of them all (Lin Dai) refused to pay him, he painted an ugly picture of her, and it was three years before the Emperor accidentally ran across...
...precursor and model for the race riots of 1967. In the sunny, sullen ghetto on Los Angeles' southeast side, all the elements of racial violence were present: rat-ridden housing, usurious white shopkeepers, broken black families, humiliating welfare-office routines, tough cops, kids with a yen to loot and lash out, and the random spark of a clumsy arrest. In this meticulously researched reconstruction, Robert Conot, 38, a Los Angeles newspaperman and novelist, shows how all those elements combined to produce six days of madness...
Every pianist, violinist and 'cellist with a yen for chamber music has at one time or another chugged through the Schubert Piano Trio No. 1 in B-flat. It's hazards of technique and intonation are notorious, but somehow the beauty of the work transcends the most adverse of circumstances and comes through in spite of wrong notes, shaky ensemble, and sick intervals...
Offices in Corridors. Georgia's Democratic Governor Lester Maddox airily dismisses most of the C.E.D. recommendations, instead attributes the states' troubles to a yen by Washington "to take them over." But many Governors have long been pushing the sort of reforms proposed by the C.E.D. Says Vermont's Philip Hoff, a Democrat serving his third two-year term: "The states have forced the growth of centralized Federal Government because they have failed to meet their responsibilities...