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When the French fought in Viet Nam, they called it la sale guerre-the filthy war. It has grown even more so. The scrawny Viet Cong guerrilla, who has always fought from the shadows, has become an expert in the art of booby traps. At the beginning of this year, 20% of all U.S. wounded were the victims of Charlie's booby traps and land mines, and the casualties are growing. In the U.S. Marine sectors alone, booby-trap incidents have increased from an average of three a day in January to nearly eight a day last month. Wherever...
Bouncing Betty. Until recently, the V.C.'s most lethal trap has been the U.S.-made "Bouncing Betty," 1,400 of which fell into enemy hands last spring. A two-stage antipersonnel mine triggered by a trip wire, Betty is kicked a yard in the air by a small preliminary charge, then explodes into hundreds of tiny fragments. "Anybody within ten feet of it is going to lose both legs," says a Marine colonel...
...first half was a frustrating experience for the Crimson, who dominated the action but couldn't score. Dudley Blodget got off several shots from right wing and Jim Saltonstall showed off the trap-pivot-shoot maneuver he had patented at the center forward position, but with no success...
...where his friends speak in advertising slogans, and travels cross-country trying to write and live by the standards he considers important. But the girl with whom he has run away turns out to be corrupt, and finally his love for her destroys him. Ferdinand has journeyed from one trap to another, and the realization of this is deeply disturbing. "Pierrot Le Fou" is an extension of Godard's preoccupation with the importance of human values in a world of emotional and intellectual bankruptcy. Godard's pessimistic attitude indirectly makes his lament more powerful than in his previous films...
Agricultural Engineer Clarence Hansen and Agronomist A. Earl Erickson began working on the idea seven years ago when they noticed that certain areas of Michigan produced a high yield of crops from loose, sandy soil. The soil was productive, they realized, because an underlying layer of clay was trap ping rain water instead of allowing it to drain away, thus keeping the surface soil moist. "We decided to mimic these soils," says Erickson...