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...added pepper and spice, Wolfe includes 52 "hard words," all-purpose insults that can be dropped in as needed. Example: "Hairy creep," which is Oiler Leisetreter in German, Troglodyte in French, Stupido scimmione in Italian and Espantapájaros in Spanish. "The insult must flash like lightning," admonishes Wolfe. "It must not be delivered tardily or with the hesitancy which is so often engendered if one is wondering whether or not the last syllable is to be inflected. Again, a slightly mangled pronunciation sometimes gives the insult a macabre quality; it may add to its stunning effect on the insultee...
...special heat-sensor equipment, they can pinpoint tiny cooking fires that betray the presence of the Viet Cong. "We can't kill them all, but we can make sure Charlie has to eat cold rice," says an Air Force targeting officer. With powerful 4,500,000-candle-power flash cartridges, Recce planes can turn night into day to photograph enemy convoys sneaking down the Ho Chi Minh trail. "The object is to make Charlie walk," says another targeter. "I'd like to see him start walking at Hanoi. The farther he has to walk, the longer his supply...
...clearly had helped the President's mood. Still, as the nation's most avid psephologist,* Johnson took every opportunity to discount his recent drop in the polls. Without even looking down at his notes, he rattled off nearly a dozen favorable tallies and, with a brief flash of his White House petulance, threw a barb at reporters: "We have had a dozen polls, I guess, in the last week. You don't read about the favorable ones, though, I observe." Quoting a poll that gave him the approval of 55% of the nation, Johnson added: "That...
...highly sophisticated defense-part electronic trickery, part "jinking" (violent evasive maneuvers)-used by U.S. pilots. When a mission goes in, radar-rigged C121 Constellations, called "the Big Eyes," orbit off the Tonkin coast, able to pick up a missile launch at the moment of ignition. The Big Eyes flash an instantaneous radio warning to the fighter-bomber pilots, who wrench into tight turns and deep dives that the SAMs cannot follow...
Usually, a military change of command is accompanied by the most poignant pomp and circumstance. Boot heels click and swords flash in the sun; hands sweep neatly to helmet brims and pennants slowly change place on flagstaffs. Last week, as France withdrew from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the change of command was far from melodramatic. French General Glean Crepin, commander of the Allied Forces in Central Europe, demanded a private ceremony in the inner courtyard of the Château de Fontainebleau. There, with the quietest of diplomatic drumrolls, he relinquished control of the 60 divisions in NATO...