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...when Oregonians went to the polls, the President sweated out the results at the White House until 3 a.m. He went to bed pleased. In a victory of almost 2-to-l proportions (159,097 to 88,473), Duncan plainly demonstrated that supporting the war can be a political asset...
Jowly & Jolly. "Our strength lies in our nationalistic feeling," asserts King Bhumibol, and the men who run Thailand are well aware that their youthful King is their-and the nation's-greatest living asset. Among the most important, military and civilian, members of Thailand's ruling oligarchy...
...Huskies' prime asset is the sharpest pair of southpaws in Massachusetts, senior Steve Grolnic and sophomore Ed McCarty. Grolnic, who will face Harvard, is 6-2 with a 2.32 earned run average and 83 strikeouts in 58 innings...
...Times's editorial enterprise was rewarded last week with a Pulitzer Prize* for local coverage. Like many another metropolitan daily facing expanding competition from TV, radio and magazines, the Times is working overtime to strengthen the local reporting, which is a newspaper's major asset. It is to the Times's credit that, Pulitzer or no, it is still not satisfied with its home-town coverage. The paper's own editorial brass feels that it has scored most of its successes so far on national and international coverage...
Rope's most striking asset is Gert Frobe, as a pig-eyed book seller who peers through inch-thick spectacles and proves to be a barrel of rare old felon in the very first scene. The night is dark; Frobe approaches a woman seated alone on a bus at a rest stop somewhere between Nice and Grasse, drags her into a small park and stabs her. The victim is his wife, and Frobe has such an airtight alibi that the murder case would be swiftly closed except for a rich young stranger (Maurice Ronet), who is interested in uxoricide...