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...intelligence report that the Cong are likely to bring some goods down one of their supply routes," says the 1st Infantry Division's Sergeant Leonard Knipe. "So we go after them, zipping up and down the trail with our lights off, both scope men studying every inch of ground below us, as though it were day. As soon as we see something, the lead chopper informs the other ship, we wheel around...
...accidents of nature and wealth, many of the most interesting stellar objects are inaccessible to the earth's most powerful optical telescopes. The objects are visible only from the Southern Hemisphere; the biggest telescopes, such as the massive 200-inch instrument atop California's Mount Palomar, are located in the Northern Hemisphere...
...resulting gap in astronomical research will soon be filled by ten U.S. universities, the European Southern Observatory agency and a joint British-Australian group, which have started building three 146-to 150-inch telescopes in southern latitudes this year. A U.S. telescope costing about $10 million will rise at Cerro Tololo in the Chilean Andes, 300 miles north of Santiago. A European instrument will be placed on nearby La Silla Mountain. In Australia, a $12.3 million instrument is slated for Siding Spring Mountain, 200 miles from Sydney...
...Generally young, the attorneys "really get in there and chew," says Marine Lieut. Colonel Bill Wander, who has just returned from 13 months as the law officer* at every Marine or Navy general court-martial in Viet Nam. "They fight tooth and nail and don't give an inch. They come from all the best law schools...
Chicago's municipal water-supply inlets and those of industries that draw water directly from the lake became clogged time and again with the little (two-to-seven-inch) alewives. Off Benton Harbor, Mich., an aerial photographer reported a ribbon of dead fish 50 ft. wide and 40 miles long floating on the surface of the lake...