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...North Vietnamese, whatever their personal courage, are clearly having considerable difficulty getting supplies up to forward positions. A recent batch of wounded prisoners taken by the ARVN airborne had not eaten for four days; they cried out for rice more loudly than for medical attention. U.S. Lieut. Colonel Charles C. Pursley...
...Along with its surprisingly accurate long-range weather predictions and other distinctive features, the 156-year-old Farmers' Almanac has always carried a batch of snappy sayings that put down women. ("She's a human dynamo-charging everything." "Many a gal has made it to the top because her dress didn't.") This year, however, the ladies get a slightly better shake. Acting on a letter from a Maryland woman who complained about male chauvinism. Editor Ray Geiger has included in the 1973 edition a two-page article stressing women's intellectual equality and right...
...That batch of back-courtroom gossip followed a story by the National Observer's Nina Totenberg reporting that the court had had its first racial incident. Justice Marshall had asked for a rescheduling of a judicial conference so that he could attend the funeral of a relative. When Chief Justice Burger found that the new date would conflict with the funeral of former Justice James Byrnes, which he felt a duty to attend, the conference was switched back to the original date. No one told Marshall about the change; the conference was held, and cases were debated and decided...
WITH nearly as much impatience as their fathers sweated out the final months before repeal, U.S. whiskey executives have long been counting the days till July 1, 1972. On that day last week, having aged the required four years, the first batch of light whiskey-a new kind of spirit that goes down more smoothly and has less flavor than bourbon or rye-could legally be brought out of the barrel and bottled for sale. Distillers passed the years of waiting by copywriting names and dreaming up different recipes for some 50 new brands. Yet when the big day finally...
...kept burbling new accidents and other death scenes for us to visit. There was a death car on the Southeast Expressway; there was another shooting in the South End; there was a drowning in Dedham. When I got back to the Desk some three hours later there was another batch of clippings on my typewriter. A small sheet of copy paper with "fatals round-up" written on it held all the sheets together. The City Editor came over to explain how I should write the fatals round-up. It was very busy then, with only an hour to go till...