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...left to Harvard the contents of his four story New York townhouse where since 1919 he had assiduously nurtured a beloved and burgeoning board of art works. The dedicated scholar or the graduate student in Harvard's Museum Course who was invited to the house at 15 East 81st Street would have been ushered into the still and rarefied atmosphere of a crowded private gallery by a grave and reserved Victorian gentleman, his dignified features adorned by a shining pince-nez perched above a neatly dressed moustache and small beard...
...well-travelled Plante, who came to the Bruins Saturday night in a trade with Toronto, had 27 saves in registering his second shutout of the season and the 81st of his NHL career...
Still another burial ground is neatly marked with the names of some 80 men of the famed 81st Special Airborne Ranger Brigade, which held out against massive Communist attacks within the city. Five crumpled Russian tanks lie like slaughtered beasts near by, a testament to the unit's determination. Says Lieut. Colonel Laddie Logan, one of six American advisers in An Loc today...
...81st never gave up an inch of ground, and they never left a single one of their dead unburied, even under the heaviest artillery fire...
...Highway 13 to the north of Saigon is like watching mortar rounds being walked in on a position. Each day, when one drives up the highway through the flat open rice fields, progress is stopped closer to Saigon." The going on Route 1 is just as tough. The elite 81st Special Airborne Ranger Brigade, which helped save An Loc and recapture Quang Tri, is being tied down clearing areas only 16 miles from Saigon...