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Starting in late May, 100,000 U.S. servicemen were funneled into Viet Nam in 120 days. Warships from Task Force 77, the assault unit of the Seventh Fleet, launched round-the-clock bombing raids, trained their six-inch guns on Viet Cong concentrations as far as 15 miles inland...
From his tweeds to his twang, Saltonstall is every inch a Brahmin-the last of the Massachusetts species in high elective office. Tall and erect, with the kind of homeliness that radiates integrity, Salty is famed among Senate colleagues for the Bostonian virtues of unfailing courtesy and caution. On one occasion, when asked by a reporter for his opinion on a foreign policy issue, the taciturn Senator replied: "No comment, and that's off the record...
...squishy little parasites are less than an inch long, but they cause a globe-girdling disease variously known as schistosomiasis, bilharziasis, or simply snail fever. The more man does to increase his food supply, the more he nurtures the parasites and spreads the disease. Only a few years ago, the world had an estimated 100 to 200 million schistosomiasis victims spread across much of Asia, Africa and Latin America; now the estimate is 50% higher, largely because new irrigation canals and other waterworks have enlarged the parasites' habitat...
...Michigan man faces ten years for possessing burglary tools, but only five for using them. In North Carolina, a housebreaker who slips through a partly opened door can get ten years; a burglar who personally opens the same door another inch faces death. Even federal income tax raps seem out of whack: the maximum for falsifying a return is five years compared with one year for not filing...
...turned out, Hanoi was not giving an inch in its four hard-line preconditions-which include full U.S. acceptance of the Viet Cong's program for the communization of South Viet Nam. The only difference this time was that the Communists tried the new gambit of describing their demands as being "in reality the explanation" of the 1954 Geneva accord that divided Viet Nam. Since the Viet Cong had not even existed as an organized military and political force until 1960, it was difficult to accept such reasoning...