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...three days the 67-ft. shrimp boat Ala drifted eastward through the Florida Straits, nudged along by the Gulf Stream. Its diesel engines had burned out, its radio was powerless, it was taking water. The two Negro shrimpers out of Florida's Fort Myers stood knee-deep in water, bailing for their lives. Near dusk, a MIG jet out of Cuba swooped toward the boat...
...eight-to 15-week courses in such subjects as village administration, agriculture, public health, guerrilla warfare and "Information Science"-a stiff dose of anti-Communist propaganda. In West Java villages, lieutenants teach peasants to read with king-sized letter cards, and sergeants demonstrate to housewives how to purify water. Knee-deep in the village streams, soldiers plant fish traps made from bamboo and rushes; in the paddyfields, noncoms and men with hoes help farmers clear irrigation ditches of weeds and snags. "The villages are where we won the revolution against the Dutch," says an army colonel. "And this is where...
...57th Helicopter Co., which since last December has flown some 45,000 troops on 6,300 sorties, ferried the Rangers and six U.S. observers to the strike zone. There was no cover but no enemy fire either as the Rangers jumped from the hovering helicopters into the knee-deep black mud of the paddy fields...
...Knee-Deep in Arts. Opened in 1894, Culver owes its military hue to Founder Henry Harrison Culver, a prosperous St. Louis stovemaker, who for his health roughed it one summer on Lake Maxinkuckee. Culver soon zestfully launched a chautauqua, wound up with a military academy. He aimed to blend liberal and Christian education, using military discipline "because of its peculiar advantage in bringing out the best results in the development of boys...
...progress to date is so encouraging that final-phase preparations are under way for the moment when it will become an operational part of the U.S. arsenal. Last week airmen and officers at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base were being trained to fire Minutemen. Slogging through knee-deep snow, workmen in Montana were well along on the project of digging 150 silo missile sites that will be scattered like giant gopher holes across 20,000 sq. mi. By late next fall, a full year ahead of the original schedule, the first 50 Minutemen will go operational in Montana...