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...Ninh City. In Phuoc Tuy province, the Communists are attempting to gain control of several rubber plantations near the town of Long Thanh. Not far from there, they have organized the 301st Regiment of the so-called People's Liberation Armed Forces. Government military analysts believe this new command will direct intensified attacks around Saigon...
During the Republican '20s, the World was the nation's most articulate Democratic newspaper, and Lippmann's stately leaders became required reading for policymakers of all persuasions. When Lippmann later took command of the World's editorial page, he transformed it into an austere daily seminar. Novelist James M. Cain, then an editorial associate, warned Lippmann that not all World readers were up to the demands that he made on their intelligence. "You are always trying to dredge up basic principles," Cain said. "Now if what you've got to blow is a bugle, there...
...column was ultimately syndicated in more than 200 papers; it brought him wealth, honors and worldwide fame. His lean, dignified presence was another of Washington's monuments. An invitation to the home he and his vivacious wife Helen had on Woodley Road, near the National Cathedral, was a command performance (Mrs. Lippmann died in February). Lippmann-called "the autocrat of the dinner table" by awed guests-would lead evening companions through Socratic questions on an encyclopedic range of subjects...
What has happened is that [the developed countries] do not want to listen to us but to command us. Every time they talk to us or send us a note, it is to tell us that oil is responsible for everything that is happening in the world. Really, we feel ourselves to be abandoned, mistreated and ill-considered...
Dave Humm, Nebraska, 6 ft. 2 in., 186 lbs. A lefty who is tall, sharp and poised and knows how to take command. During Humm's tenure as signal caller, Nebraska ran up 26 victories against only seven defeats...