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...trucks, the marines sped through streets where saffron-robed Buddhist monks wandered with begging bowls, and past klongs (canals) filled with naked children swimming happily among pink and white lotuses. At Don Muang airport on the city's outskirts, the morning temperature had already reached 95°. U.S. transport planes, flown in from Japan, swiftly airlifted the marines to Udon in northeastern Thailand, only 40 miles from the Mekong River and Vientiane, capital of Laos...
...first quarter of 1962 than in all of 1961 or 1960. Biggest test for the government came last month, when dock workers at Britain's 25 ports demanded a considerably fattened pay package. The dockers are members of the country's biggest and most militant union, the Transport and General Workers, whose battling, left-wing General Secretary Frank Cousins proclaimed that the Pay Pause was a case of "capitalism showing its teeth against us." Last week, threatened with the first major, nationwide dock strike in 36 years, Labor Minister John Hare backed down and approved a settlement that...
...papers presented at the assembly were selected from among 24 abstracts, most representing two or three years of intensive investigation. The authors selected include: Charles R. Jorgenson (fourth year), "A Common Pathway for Sugar Transport in Hamster Small intestine;" Charles W. Loes (fourth year), "The Control of Galastone-Formenting Enzymes in N. Coli:" and Aalph A. W. Lehman (fourth year), "Perfusion Studies of Diodrast and Isulin Transport Out of Cerebrospinal Fluid...
...Viet Nam lies Red China, and to the west, sharing a 150-mile jungle border, lies chaotic Laos, where last week the Reds took another stronghold. In Laos, U.S. policy appears exactly opposite that in South Viet Nam. The border is held by the Communist Pathet Lao, and Soviet transport planes daily land supplies at Tchepone. close to the frontier. It is madness, argues Columnist Joseph Alsop among others, for the U.S. to believe that it can gain victory in Viet Nam without holding Laos. The State Department's answer is that the U.S. is willing to settle...
...replace his favorite sports of riding, squash, golf and swimming, which he no longer has time for, and dressed in freshly pressed suntans, had breakfast with his attractive wife, the former Elizabeth Conner of Ewing, Neb. Arriving at Saigon airport at 8 a.m., Harkins climbed into his small L23 transport and the pilot took off, cruising at 13,000 ft. above the rubber plantations in the rolling foothills north of Saigon...