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...very nature of air reconnaissance by fire suggests a civilian hazard in built-up areas. By stitching a few random bullets through the underbrush, armed choppers hope to draw fire that will reveal a Viet Cong position. It often works; but now and then the bullets hit buffaloes, houses-or people...
...President Johnson told a press conference that another 10,000 U.S. troops will soon arrive. Experts in Saigon foresaw 150,000 men by year's end. While last week's frenetic activity may have reflected a certain Communist desperation, the President was blunt about what the built-up U.S. forces face. Said he: "We expect it will get worse before it gets better...
...taken out while breakfast is brought in. Similar stops are made at noon and dinnertime for meals to be put aboard. As the room slows down, the occupants must lie down. Otherwise they would suffer vertigo. One little twitch of the head at this stage would destroy their painstakingly built-up adaptation to rotation...
...High Jumper John Thomas, 19, loped toward the barrier, kicked high, sailed over the bar to set a world's outdoor record of 7 ft. 1½ in. The previous mark of 7 ft. 1 in. was set by Russian High Jumper Yuri Stepanov in 1957 while wearing built-up shoes of a type now banned. Thomas already holds the indoor record of 7 ft. 2½ in., but only outdoor jumps gain international recognition...
...acres of land near Alexandria owned by Joseph Smouha, 83-year-old Iraqi-born Jew known as the wealthiest British subject in Egypt (TIME. March 2). Solution of the Smouhaha. as the British called it: the Egyptians would give him back the race track, golf course and other built-up property that they had seized from him after the British landings. But they would keep the surrounding farm land which, for tax purposes, he had valued unusually low. It would be up to the British to compensate...