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Rules of the Road. It was another typical day on Yankee Station, the patch of the 45,000-sq.-mi. Tonkin Gulf from which U.S. Task Force 77 launch es its air strikes on North Viet Nam. Ever since the 33-ship force arrived, it has been tailed by one or another of the snoopy Soviet trawlers. Equipped with sophisticated electronic gear, the Russian "skunks" (as they are pungently known in Navy parlance) keep a close watch on U.S. air operations, flash their information to beleaguered Hanoi, and do their best to monitor the radars and radios of American ships...
Then you cross Avalon and see the first of the "Treeline Projects," long chains of two-story apartments built by federal, state, and local welfare agencies. Groups of eight or ten men, young and old, may be sitting on the small patch of grass in front, waiting for another day to pass, thinking about a gallon of wine. And traveling east you may see a poster on the wall of a deserted building urging "Boycott, Baby, Boycott," or just "B---, Baby, B---." Now you're in Watts...
...Administration's fight against inflation so far has been patchwork. Last week, announcing the latest in a series of anti-inflation moves, the President rather ruefully told newsmen: "As we say down on the farm, 'maybe we ought to try to get by with some baling wire, patch things up,' to get by during this particular period, when there is such pressure on our economy...
...typical Dutch town - a canal, two town gates, a bridge and church steeples, a wide majestic sky, and over all a warm light dipping here and there to touch the waves, the boats and a little patch of yellow wall with a special brilliance. Jan Vermeer had painted Delft and the river Schie with all the sureness of one who had spent his entire life there. And even though his name was all but unknown, the painting was recognized as an "extraordinary" landscape (see color pages), purchased by The Hague in 1822, and hung next to a Rembrandt...
...Marine operation, as well as a painful piece of Viet Cong shrapnel in his rear. In the thick of the recent Buddhist revolt in Danang, Page was again working for LIFE when a rebel grenade exploded near his face and cost him two pints of blood before medics could patch up his eight wounds...