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Ready for Home. The elaborate precautions were understandable. The lump below Nguyen Van Chin's twelfth rib was a Viet Cong grenade, capable of spraying inch-long wire chunks in every direction at about 4,800 ft. per second. The problem began one night last week when Chin felt the call of nature. Soon after he stepped outside his hut near the village of My Tho, south of Saigon, a grenade launcher roared and sent its missile into his back from a distance that must have been less than 12 yds. The Viet Cong's 40-mm. grenades...
...left jab that was curiously described by sportswriters as "savage," "snapping," "a bullwhip" and "the finest jab any heavyweight has shown since Joe Louis." Curiously, because Chuvalo didn't even blink. The best blow of the night was a butt by the Canadian that opened up a one-inch gash over Terrell's left eye. "He butted me deliberately," Terrell complained afterward. "He stepped on my toes. He was spitting in my face, trying to blind me." Nonetheless Ernie won a unanimous decision and retained his W.B.A. title. For whatever that was worth...
Barghoorn found the black rock near Barbetorn, South Africa on an expedition last year. He then brought the specimens back to Harvard where he discovered the fossils, 50,000ths of an inch in length, with an electron microscope...
...Some six miles away on the road to Plei Me, the tank-led relief column was braced for ambush. When it erupted from a thorn thicket, the tanks wheeled into something resembling the old wild West wagon-train circle-but there the similarity ended. Loaded with heavy canister (finned, inch-long small shot), the tank guns blazed away point-blank at the jungle, mowing the brush to stubble as if a huge rotary mower had cut a 40-yd. swath on each side of the road. Dozens of shredded enemy bodies-arms, legs, heads, viscera-were plastered against the shattered...
Immediately after the fire was controlled, the damaged area of the sixth floor had been a mucky mess of charred furniture, cinders, and ashes spread through a three-inch layer of water. Doors were charred or completely burned away; insulation and panelling had disappeared, leaving walls and ceilings of bare concrete; everything was blackened, the concrete still hot. The fifth floor was under several inches of water...