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Until the North Vietnamese unleashed their attack across the DMZ, U.S. Air Force and Navy pilots in the war rarely saw their prey. Elusive guerrillas and camouflaged trucks on jungle trails seldom afforded high-flying supersonic pilots a visible target. Last week, whenever the cloud cover lifted, the flyers could sight the enemy on the ground. "You had the feeling," said Waddel, "that you were really doing something significant...
...North Vietnamese offensive, gunfire from the U.S. destroyers that patrol the Tonkin Gulf succeeded in turning back 300 Communist troops from an attempted crossing of the Dong Ha River. Shortly before the Navy became engaged in the battle for Quang Tri province, TIME's Saigon Bureau Chief, Stanley Cloud, was a guest aboard one of those destroyers. There he was able to observe a vital but underreported U.S. contribution...
...U.S.S. Buchanan, a guided missile destroyer, rolls gently in the waters of the Tonkin Gulf, 5,000 yards offshore of the Demilitarized Zone. Overhead, a full moon slips in and out of wispy tangles of cloud. Crew members who are not needed to fire the guns or run the ship are down in the mess deck watching Jane Fonda in Barbarella...
There is one cloud on the thatchers' horizon. To meet the increasing demand for thatched roofs, Devonshire Businessman John Fox has devised an imitation and partially assembled thatch. Solid fiber glass, it comes in any color (golden brown/mature thatch and yellow-gold/newly laid thatch are the two preferred varieties). It takes less than a week to put up, is guaranteed birdproof and verminproof, and should last several lifetimes. Scoffs a conventional thatcher: "I suppose if you have not got very good eyesight and stand far enough away it could pass for thatch. But man can't improve...
There is one cloud on the thatchers' horizon. To meet the increasing demand for thatched roofs, Devonshire Businessman John Fox has devised an imitation and partially assembled thatch. Solid fiber glass, it comes in any color (golden brown/mature thatch and yellow-gold/newly laid thatch are the two preferred varieties). It takes less than a week to put up, is guaranteed birdproof and verminproof, and should last several lifetimes. Scoffs a conventional thatcher: "I suppose if you have not got very good eyesight and stand far enough away it could pass for thatch. But man can't improve...