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Sound of Music. Near Plei Mrong, McNamara tramped through red mud to visit a village of Montagnard tribesmen that had been nearly destroyed by the Viet Cong last January; surrounded by goats, pigs, chickens and barebreasted women, the Defense Secretary observed the villagers voting in the national election being held that day, which was carefully arranged to sweep back into office a new Diem-ruled National Assembly. Then the Secretary, Taylor and Ambassador Lodge headed south into the Communistinfested Mekong Delta, where the war has always been an uphill struggle, and where the Reds have recently increased activity. As they...
...only will the apartments be ready, but the contractors also promise to have sidewalks, now a sea of mud, paved, and trees planted around the completed buildings...
...Viet Cong heavy machine gun knocked out an APC. But supported by government air force planes, which swept over the Red positions in screaming, shallow dives firing rockets and dropping napalm, the reinforcements rolled straight onto the Reds, mashing scores of the Communist troops into the stinking paddy mud with their huge steel treads. At last the Reds broke and ran, leaving behind 83 dead...
...picked up the medical tab and the government set up a fund to cover the boys' education. The family can well use it. Inés María and the babies' father, Efrén Lubín Prieto, 38, live in a 20-ft.-sq. mud hut in a dismal slum on the shore of Lake Maracaibo. Out of Efrén Lubín's earnings of $10 a day, he supports 18 people, including ten children from his previous families and four from Inés María's first marriage...
...founding 100 years ago by Dyemaker Friedrich Bayer, the company has shown a knack for seeing ahead of competitors. In the 1860s Bayer began setting up aniline plants from Albany, N.Y., to Moscow. Friedrich Bayer's successor, Chemist Carl Duisberg, transformed the company's dismal laboratories from mud-floored hovels into bright, superbly equipped plants. These became the models for modern labs elsewhere and the source of a grand succession of inventions-mediicnes to fight sleeping sickness and tuberculosis -that made Germany the pharmacy of the world. Duisberg was also a prime mover in organizing...