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...Communist posters offer big rewards for every handler captured dead or alive, and fully half of the 18 men who arrived in Viet Nam with Johns last July have been killed or wounded. His only wound came from a dog-not his own-that flipped under pressure and nearly tore off Johns's right hand. His own dog, a German shepherd named Kentucky, patrolling at the edge of a jungle copse, sniffed out an ambush, saved 35 lives-and won Johns a Bronze Star recommendation...
...Bruckel took a corner too tightly, hit the wooden strip guarding the inside of the track, slipped and fell. His flying foot hit Young and tore his shoe off, but Young never broke stride. Huvelle and teammate Dave McKelvey did. The slightly injured Huvelle finished second anyway in 1:11.8 behind Young's 1:11.0. McKelvey was fourth...
...regard to the air pollution of Los Angeles, I recall that in the very beginning of the smog era, the city's transportation officials did what has proved to be a foolish thing. They eliminated all the electric trains that fed into the city from the suburbs and tore up their tracks...
...Within two days, the temperature plummeted to the 20s, snow came cascading down, and icy winds gusted through the streets. Though no stranger to wintry storms, Chicago found itself in the brief space of 24 hours paralyzed by the worst blizzard in its history-a raging storm that tore through large sections of the Midwest and caused at least 75 deaths...
...Chateau Gendebien near the town of Mons. The chateau sits in a pleasant 30-acre parkland populated by pheasants and wild rabbits. Unfortunately, the house is pretty much in a state of nature, too. No one has lived there since 1959; five years ago, three vandals broke in and tore the place apart, smashing windows and yanking down chandeliers. It will take more than a year to renovate the shambles and install a few modern conveniences Mrs. Lemnitzer is likely to ask for. Unless, of course, she prefers to pump her own water in the kitchen...