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Under slate-grey skies, U.S. Marine landing craft plowed through 5-ft. waves in the Bay of Danang, came to a halt with gravelly crunches, and dropped their ramps. Out poured hundreds of U.S. marines in full battle dress, with M-14 rifles held at high port. They were the vanguard of a 3,500-man force, the first marines since Korea to hit the beaches in a combat zone, and the first U.S. combat-as opposed to "advisory" -troops to arrive in South Viet...
...seven nights a week, NBC will be kaleidoscopically ablaze with 14 old shows and 13 new. Then the only off-color notes will be sounded by I Dream of Jeannie for a half-hour, Convoy for an hour, and an occasional feature film. Jeannie will have light grey hair, because Jeannie is a genie, and getting her out of a bottle is a ponderous camera trick in color; Convoy will be deflowered because it incorporates black-and-white wartime film clips. Otherwise the prime-time rainbow will be unblemished. And off prime time, NBC will continue to colorcast the Johnny...
Mounted police moved in to signal that the demonstration was over. They were astride dapple-grey horses, the same stalwart breed that the Cossacks had used to run down street mobs with nagaika and saber in czarist days. 'Suddenly the scene dissolved into chaos, and photos taken by Western journalists provided a dramatic record of the astounding proceedings. This was. after all, the first time since June 1918 that a Moscow riot had to be put down by force. The cops let fly with whip and truncheon. Screaming "Fascists!" at the militia, the mob fought back with rocks, bricks...
...embassy damage was considerable, with fully 310 windows shattered and the grey facade streaked with reel, blue and black ink. U.S. Ambassador Foy Kohler sent an angry note, charging that police protection had been "grossly inadequate." The protest was accepted by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who sent workers to repair the damage...
Meanwhile, several unsavory friends stand ready to expand a mere triangle into a many-splendored thing. Lana's warmest admirer is Hugh O'Brian, a Romeo-for-hire to rich female tourists. Two of them (Ruth Roman and Virginia Grey) have come to Acapulco to get some son, and Ruth thinks that O'Brian is just...