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• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 1999
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: August 1, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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Hearingnit from marines: Berthelsen (left) jand Cook (rigit)
Americans at War PAGE 28
Operation Hastings last week took U.S. Marines within two miles
of the border of North Vietnam. It involved nearly 20,000 men. But
despite the continuing build-up on both sides, the war remains es-
sentially a supreme test for the individual American soldier. How is
he performing? For a look at the new breed of U.S. soldier News-
week's Saigon correspondents Francois Sully, Merton Perry, William
Cook, John Berthelsen and bureau chief Everett Martin recently
spent days on patrol, in helicopters and at bases scattered around I
South Vietnam. From their files, the cover story was written by As-
sociate Editor Raymond Carroll, edited by General Editor Dwight
Martin. (Newsweek cover photo by James Pickerell-Black Star.)
The Case of Senator Dodd PAGE 22 1.
For years, Sen. Thomas Dodd toiled routinely ' in the Senate's
vineyards but now he is the talk of the Capital grapevine. Chief Con-
gressional correspondentql Shaffer interviewed Dodd while,
other Newsweek men pore over documents for this week's analysis
of I'affaire Dodd, written by Associate Editor Frank Trippett.
The Ladies, God Bless 'em, in the Executive Suite PAGE 68
She's a kind of all-purpose sentry and psychologist. Indeed, the
executive secretary may be as important to the businessman as his
choice of a wife. From interviews by Newsweek reporters, Associate
Editor Shepherd Campbell wrote this week's Spotlight on Business.
yun's Magnificent Mile PAGE 74
What limit to human achievement? asked
Newsweek's cover story last week. Examin-
ing the meteoric career of 19-year-old
Kansas miler Jim Ryun, Sports Editor John
Lake suggested that Ryun can "lower every
middle-distance record in the book-espe-
cially that magnificent mile." Less than 24
ours of er Newsweek went to press, Ryun
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