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...nominate the Chairman of the Communist Party in the People's Republic of China, Mao Tse-tung. This insidious and inscrutable leader of one-fourth of the world's population now holds his finger on the trigger of China's newly developed atomic device. He most certainly altered the course of history...
...multilateral force of 25 surface ships armed with Polaris missiles and manned by mixed crews from NATO nations. Where the French nuclear force currently swings a total punch of three megatons, the MLF would carry 200. Though the U.S. would retain ultimate control of the MLF's nuclear trigger, participating nations would have more pull on it than under the French scheme. The French last week reiterated one of their many objections to MLF: it would start the Germans toward being a nuclear power. But how in the long run can Germany be kept from wanting the same nuclear...
Into a ragged rubber plantation 30 miles northwest of Saigon swarmed 115 helicopters. The craft disgorged 1,100 taut, trigger-happy South Vietnamese troops while another 6,000 men charged in aboard armored personnel carriers to block potential escape routes. Rockets laced the 40-sq.-mi. area, smashing huts and sending greasy black smoke pluming skyward, while a 19-boat force stirred up the Saigon River in watchful patrol. This was "Operation Brushfire"-the long-awaited, widely discussed push against the Viet Cong of Binh Duong province, the men who had probably mortared
...Snell would have to do it alone. At the threequarter mark, he was 25 yds. in front-and slowly, almost imperceptibly, his pace slackened. The crowd waited anxiously for his famed kick, that last fierce dash to the finish. But there was no one near him, no one to trigger him, and he could summon only part of it. Time...
Other deserve warm commendation: Jane Alexander as the affectionate Julia, Terrence Currier as Bob Acres, the country bumpkin, and George Mitchell as Sir Lucius O'Trigger, the aged but still hot-headed city rake. But the warmest praise must go to Michael Murray, the director. His lively pace piles absurdity upon hilarity, yet he never crowds his little stage. His conception of the play rests upon the humor in each character, not in the situation, and he presents them as individuals with exaggerated but endearing faults. They share the same manners and conventions, but they have clearly defined personalities...