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Swimming in these rivers proves nothing about piranhas; not every square foot of the Amazon River system is infested by them, any more than every patch of our Rockies is covered with mountain lions. Our guides also bathed every day-generally toward the middle of the rivers where the water flowed freely...
...Road. Trained for a year at a special Air Force school in Denver, the photo interpreters can tell whether a dark patch in the foliage is the cover for a V.C. truck-or the product of a jungle spring. A one-eighth-inch telephone wire strung across a jungle clearing can betray the location of an enemy field-communications system; a jungle trail that suddenly peters out can pinpoint the entrance to a labyrinth of V.C. tunnels; a road that goes nowhere can lead the photo interpreters to a hidden oil dump. It requires infinite patience. "A road ends...
...meetings so shook the Negro civil rights movement that Dr. Martin Luther King, the best known and most popular of the rights leaders, felt obliged to warn that the movement is "very, very close" to a permanent split over the issue of black power, urged civil rights leaders to patch up their differences before it is too late...
...were more or less back to normal service, but the biggest of the European carriers, British European Airways, which carries more passengers than any other airline outside the U.S., was in continuing turbulence. Sir Anthony Milward, chairman of the state-owned BEA, passed the trouble off as a "bad patch" of flying; passengers characterized it as a chronic inability to get off the ground in proper flying time...
During the past decade, Harvard has cautiously ventured into the world of City government. It has done so largely through one man, Charles P. Whitlock. As assistant to the President for civic affairs, Whitlock has been Harvard's link to the City's patch-work politics. He attends meetings of the City Council and of many civic and neighborhood organizations. On almost all matters that involve Harvard and the City, he represents the University. But, more importantly, he has carefully cultivated the friendships of political and civic leaders...