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...like the National Broadcasting Co., shipped their mail to areas where postmen remained on the job. Many turned to Western Union. "It's terrible," said John Blasi, assistant manager of a Times Square office, as he watched clerks who normally handle 800 telegrams a day write out the 2,000th by 11 a.m. "We can't handle...
Some time last week in Viet Nam, the 40,000th American fell in the longest U.S. war. More than eight years have passed since the first American adviser, Sp/4 James T. Davis, was killed in Viet Nam on Dec. 21, 1961. Boys who were fifth-graders then are now turning their heads and coughing for doctors in induction centers...
...Brazilian soccer star and the world's highest-paid professional athlete, scores his 1,000th goal...
...week, 31 U.S. fighting men died in Viet Nam. Among them were 16 Marines helping to mop up a trapped enemy unit below Danang and one infantryman in a patrol that was ambushed 40 miles north of Saigon. One of the 31, impossible to single out, became the 30,000th American to be killed in action in Viet Nam since the grisly log was begun on Jan. 1, 1961. Almost half of the total (14,400) died this year, many in the three major offensives launched by the Communists since the Tet holiday...
...biggest magnet for visitors is L.B.J.'s elaborately cosmeticized "Boyhood Home," a Texas Historical Landmark, which after three years of operation greeted its 200,000th visitor last summer. The modest white frame house is something more than "restored." All the rooms are furnished as parlors, stuffed with turn-of-the-century furniture and L.B.J. memorabilia. More rustic, but open to the public only when the President is away, is a rebuilt "birthplace" cabin on the edge of the ranch itself...