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Tailored News. The big changeover was not entirely painless. Wire-service editors had to abandon such favorite interruptions as flashes, bulletins and new leads, except for major news breaks. They had to cut down long, rambling stories from New York and Washington to a size convenient for the cramped space of small papers. For their part, participating publishers had to use the same sizes of body type so the A.P.'s and U.P.'s spacing would fit all columns. And they had to jettison their favorite eccentricities of style, accept wire-service punctuation, capitalization and word division...
...offensive had been a major defeat for Ho Chi Minh. On the Red radio, he told his troops that they must now abandon open warfare and go back to their former guerrilla tactics. Said Ho's Commander in Chief General Vo Nguyen Giap: "Our objective is not to take Haiphong or Hanoi, but to start a war of attrition...
According to David E. Owen, head of the General Education Committee, the decision to abandon the experimental course was made by Richards, who could not be reached for comment last night. Its purpose was to integrate freshman composition work into the over-all G.E. program...
...after all, living the good life they like to kid themselves into thinking they are living. "The Kidders"--the title is doubtless trying to suggest--are not only kidding among each other in their bantering way, but are kidding themselves with their constant show of light-hearted abandon...
Probably the most consistent thing about Smith is the way the girls dress. From Sunday night through Friday afternoon, the Smith student dresses with abandon that seems almost frantic. Skirts, except for a brief period around dinner time, are as rare as television in Tibet. Instead, she wears pedal pushers, or, if still in touch with an older tradition, dungarees. Above the waist, she will wear sweater, blouse, or shirt--anything, so long as it is sufficiently aged. If she's a senior, she can throw an academic gown over the whole costume when it normally would need washing...