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...breaking Dell's serve three times. The lanky Yale sophomore evened the match with a 6-2 victory in the second set. Dell jumped out to a 3-1 lead in the final set and looked as though he would go all the way. But Junta, refusing to quit, bore down and won five straight games, the set, and the match...
Long and several colleagues arrived in Washington Wednesday night, Feb. 28. He said he called two Vietnamese friends that night to discuss the petition--which already bore 14 signatures--and they told him they would meet him the following morning at 10 a.m. "Next morning, I called them again," Long explained, "and a roommate said they were not there. I called later and he said they were asleep. It seemed to me they simply did not want to see me." Long added that a friend later informed him that these two students had been contacted between 10 p.m. Wednesday night...
Thanks to some of the most elaborate security measures in memory, there were no crowds on hand to greet Lyndon Johnson last week as a six-car procession bore him down Stemmons Freeway on his first visit to Dallas since Nov. 22, 1963. At the Texas School Book Depository, on his route, shades masked the sixth-floor window from which Lee Harvey Oswald fired the bullets that killed John F. Kennedy. As his aquamarine limousine passed within 200 yards of the building, the President also seemed determined to curtain his memories of that terrible day and spot. With Daughter Luci...
Victoria never wore her crown in private. To Albert she was a yielding, sensuous wife who even in her plaints on childbearing (she bore nine) felt that it was well worth the price. Victoria's grief at his death is an inundation of scalding, desolating loss...
...this nothing of a King fell due the bill for 800 years of divine rights. With his fat and graceless neck, the least stylish of monarchs bore final witness to the death of the royal life style. He paid to make possible "the passage from one world to another"-from all that a monarchy assumes to all that a republic promises...