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...northern Binh Dinh province. The town, a single street of shabby shops, thatch-roofed houses and a Catholic church, is an island among Communist-controlled sugar cane and rice fields. All roads leading out are controlled by the Viet Cong. A pudgy man who peers mildly from behind grey-rimmed glasses, Bradley is supposed to advise the district chief on military and civilian matters. Says he: "The less pacified my area becomes, the more military my advice becomes." To defend Tuyphuoc, Bradley has one American captain, four noncoms, and a handful of Vietnamese Civil Guardsmen and ill-trained Popular Forces...
...Brown allowed that he'd be glad to lend a hand-two, in fact. Inspired by Connecticut's Gymnast Muriel Grossfeld, 24, a comely, three-time U.S. Olympic team member who's touring the country in the cause of trimmer teenagers, Brown flopped on the light grey carpet in his Sacramento executive suite for an exhibition of gubernatorial pushups. He got up-and down-to four, took a gasper, and then did three more before returning to less arduous duties. "I haven't," breathed Pat, "done this in a long time...
...adjust their taste buds to Canadian caviar -a slightly sweeter version that currently sells fresh for about $20 a pound (v. about $50 a pound for fresh Russian caviar). But even this supply is limited. Canadian industrial growth may limit it still more, and the taste of the tiny grey fish eggs exploding on the tongue may soon be a fading memory...
...members of the Leningrad-Kirov Ballet filed into the waiting room at Paris' Le Bourget Airport. Once they were inside, one of the troupe's two "bodyguards" grimly stationed himself at the main exit. As he did, a young, sullen-faced dancer in an ill-fitting grey suit drifted away from the group. Then, suddenly hurrying his pace, he disappeared into the swarm of travelers. The second bodyguard gave chase, frantically pawed his way through the crowd until he found the dancer hiding behind a pillar. "I won't go!" the dancer screamed, and they began...
...room with nine other people, including his three sisters. "My prevailing memory," he says, "is one of hunger-consistent, gnawing hunger." To get food, mostly goat cheese and potatoes, his mother peddled all of his father's civilian clothes piece by piece-belts, suspenders, boots. "Daddy's grey suit was really quite tender," the children would say. Since he had no shoes, his mother had to carry him to school on her back, and since he had no overcoat, he had to wear his sister's hand-me-down cape. Understandably, he became the class oddball...