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...Spitfire with red propeller. A Sabra (native Israeli), he learned to fly in the Royal Air Force during World War II. In 1947 he returned to Palestine, where he bombed Arab positions by dropping hand grenades from a Piper Cub. Weizman took over the air force in 1958 and fought for appropriations against tank-minded generals in order to build it into the superb offensive weapon that knocked out the Arab air forces within the first hours...
Coach Cullen was also pleased with the Cadets' George Alcorn at number one Harvard captain Larry Terrell won in three hard-fought games. 18-15, 15-10 15-11. "Considering that Terrell is the best collegiate player in the country. I was very happy with Alcorn's performance." Cullen said...
Except for a few small details, the scene could have been "The Brickyard" at Indianapolis or Florida's famed Daytona Speedway. In the stands, thousands of fans cheered their favorites as big-league factory teams fought for that extra profit a racing victory always brings. Around and around the four-mile course, the world's best drivers gunned their big machines, each one perfectly tuned and tended by pit crews capable of performing mechanical marvels with spectacular ease. The speeds were startling, the promise of disaster ever present...
...beyond that, striking closer to home, is the tendency of this flood of moral outrage to legitimize the U. S. presence in Vietnam. For as soon as we focus our concern on how the war is being fought, we implicitly concede that it should be fought. Without this concession, indignation over the tactics of the war has no meaning...
...JOSE. Cal.. Dec. 4-After a shaky start, the varsity soccer team fought back from an early 1-0 deficit, only to be eliminated tonight from the NCAA national tournament by a last-minute St. Louis University goal...