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...regulars threatening I Corps. Though the Marines pulverized the Communist forces, they took high casualties. Walt's critics cited the U.S. losses as the reason for his surrendering command to Lieut. General Robert E. Cushman Jr. Actually, it was known long before the DMZ battles that Walt, bone-weary from endless rounds of 15-hour days, was leaving Viet Nam at the end of his second year...
Britain's press dubbed it "Chichysteria." The phenomenon quickly produced tea towels, bone-china mugs, picture postcards, model boat kits, jigsaw puzzles, health foods and even pink panties emblazoned with a black anchor-all in tribute to Sir Francis Chichester. The gaunt, 65-year-old mariner, whose solo circumnavigation of the globe ended last week, became the hottest commercial property in hero-starved Britain since Twiggy...
...cloud-shrouded planet during its flyby. Whatever its findings, however, Mariner will hardly be able to top the recent accomplishment of astronomers in a plane flying only 37,000 feet above the earth. Using an ingenious scheme and sophisticated equipment, they determined conclusively that Venus is a bone-dry planet devoid of water-and probably devoid of any kind of life...
...Ball had a hard game and improved real well during the season," he said. "Hindert played a whole week with a broken bone in his leg, before we realized it was broken. He gave us 100 per cent all the time," Wynn pointed...
...foreign affairs, the 18th century visionary saw the potential of the colonies and endorsed the French Revolution as he had the American Revolution before it. At home, he applied advanced industrial techniques at his factory near Stoke-on-Trent, where he taught workers the art of creating finely glazed bone china...