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The assignment was far from Halstead's first encounter with the U.S. military. He covered the arrival of the Marines in Viet Nam in 1965, and he was there to witness their departure a decade later. Early one morning aboard the Lexington, Halstead watched Captain Eugene McDaniel walking his...
Next October, for the first time in a decade, the Conference of Latin American Bishops (CELAM) will convene again, this time in Puebla, Mexico, and the encounter promises to be a heated one. Already a 214-page working paper for the Puebla conference, written by Latin Americans but backed by...
The long-time rivals go at it again in the Adams Cup race on the Schuykill River in Philadelphia tomorrow, in what should be a neck-and-neck encounter. An eight from Navy rounds out the field but doesn't loom as a threat to the oarsmen.
Eli Jack Cobetto had trouble warming up in the first set of that match, as Walker smoked him, 6-1. The portly Eli nabbed the second set, 7-5, but a close encounter in the third set went to Walker, 7-5, for the victory.
He was surprised, upon arriving in the U.S., to find his fears alleviated. He did not encounter "tall rock buildings and people always in a hurry, unable to talk," but rather friendly and appreciative audiences.