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...swiftly as they appeared, the Viet Cong vanish. The regulars slip into the jungle, taking with them the prisoners, guns, munitions and medical supplies they have captured. The popular forces vanish, too, going back to their villages and resuming the role of ignorant peasants who have seen nothing and heard nothing. The regional troops remain long enough to cover the withdrawal by ambushing rescue columns, mining the roads, littering the jungle trails and footpaths with concealed and deadly panjis-sharpened, poisoned bamboo spikes that stab through the soles of unwary pursuers...
...only be a baby sitter, but her appetites lead straight back to the nursery, and her cotton candy dress scarcely hides her wickedness. "I'm not dirty," she coaxes, pulling off her slip. "I'm full of womanly feelings." Then, in a skelter of pillows, the play's moral rings down on her and she dies in an athletic attempt to seduce the hothouse boy she has her eye on. But as played by Nymphet Barbara Harris, she conquers whole audiences night after night, making Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet...
...then, the bulls believe, potato prices will be up to $5 to $6 per hundredweight, leaving them a fat profit on their future contracts. The bears, who sold the bulls their contracts, are betting just as firmly that there are plenty of spuds in Maine and that prices will slip below $1.50 per hundredweight by May 14. This would leave the bears with a profit of up to $1.70 per hundredweight...
...What worked in Malaya-resettling peasants in "fortified villages" so that the guerrillas are cut off from peasant support-is not yet working in South Viet Nam. The peasants are passionately attached to their ancestral fields; when they are moved, they usually slip off into the jungle to join the Reds, who promise to give them back their land. In two fortified villages, part of "Operation Sunrise," where U.S. aid has supplied food, tools, houses and medical care, the peasants have discovered that life can be better than before. Elsewhere, they have simply been rounded up by uncomprehending district chiefs...
Another problem that the former Dean's departure allowed to slip from sight is that of the Visual Arts Center. The Administration planned the building largely because it felt a growing University ought to have one. Exactly who, among those concerned with Visual Arts, wanted it, and exactly what it should be used for were questions not raised at the time. Naturally, a committee is meeting on the center, but can come only to the most preliminary and indefinite conclusions. The Loeb Drama Center showed that the Administration produces purest chaos by permitting a building to go up without examining...