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That margin was particularly painful in light of the frustrating events of the final period, which saw the Crimson explode dramatically in the early minutes, to wipe out a B.U. lead and assume command of the game...
Formerly the machine had been used only at Strategic Air Command bases and high-security banks...
Fair was abruptly relieved of his command early this month-though many corps veterans still believe the wrong general was sacked. Initially, Fair was to have retired with a three-star general's pension-roughly $38,000 including various emoluments. But some Congressmen raised objections, and the Army retired him at his permanent two-star (major general) rank instead. That will cost the 32-year veteran as much as $3,000 a year...
...Three and the other Ivy schools were almost beyond counting in Government. There are still hordes of them around, but after seven years of Republican rule in the White House, so many men and women from the University of Chicago have moved into Government's command structure that Washington has begun to talk about "a University of Chicago Mafia...
Several previous truce agreements, although usually negotiated in good faith by leaders of the warring factions, collapsed because they were unable to control the loosely organized and undisciplined militia nominally under their command. After the mid-January ceasefire negotiated by Karami (TIME, Jan. 26), for example, rightist forces in the capital, composed mostly of Phalangists, the "Tigers" of the National Liberal Party and neighborhood militiamen, attacked two Moslem slum areas, Karantina and Maslakh. Supported by mortars, recoilless rifles and rockets, the rightists pushed out the defenders last week and then leveled the remaining shanties with bulldozers. Scores of Moslems were...