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...dropped off two U.S. infantry battalions and one ARVN battalion at three scattered points along the Rach Hui River 17 miles south of Saigon, and the troops fanned out looking for action. When one company made contact with a Viet Cong battalion on the river, the boats rushed reinforcements up, and five air strikes were called in along with armed helicopters and the miniguns of the converted C-47s known as Puff the Magic Dragon. The Monitor and troop carriers opened up at almost point-blank range with their own 20-mm. and 40-mm. cannons and 81-mm. mortars...
...East." The differences have not been buried. The Socialists still agree with De Gaulle's assessment that "the Communists are not a French party" but "an army" that takes its orders from Moscow. Socialist leaders do not miss the fact that French Communists are always evasive when asked point-blank whether they would like to turn France into a Moscow-styled people's democracy...
...defenses were quickly overrun. While some of the enemy worked at destroying the howitzers, others ran from bunker to bunker, tossing in grenades and shooting survivors. Gradually, the remaining defenders pulled back around the two 105s still in U.S. hands. The guns were cranked down to point-blank range; high-explosive shells, white phosphorus and "beehives," the deadly modern version of grapeshot, were fired at the enemy. Helicoptered reinforcements soon arrived to reclaim the hill with its burden of heavy casualties, including 117 enemy dead...
...Cambridge for the Iowa Workshop, from whence he travels this fall to Europe on an Amy Lowell Fellowship -- blut space won't permit it. "For Donald Justice," perhaps the best, is infinitely deeper and wholly more ambitious than early Grenier poems, which tended to be terse conversational fragments of point-blank incorporations of the physical environment, piece by piece. It presents motion without the encumbrances of consecutive common-sense description, and uses syntax without bowing to it. "First Settlement and After" is a brilliantly integrated "topical" piece, just as cinematic as the other...
...Crimson came closest to the scoreboard when Robertson centered the ball past Cornell's diving goalie Don Pulver, but Salty's tap from point-blank range squirted wide...