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...Southern editor, "except in the old Texas-New Deal sense. Tm gonna build y'all a dam. I'm gonna put laht bulbs in Aunt Minnie's kitchen.'" Agrees U.C.L.A.'s Chancellor Franklin Murphy: "I'm not criticizing Johnson for not having cleaned up the ghettos overnight or having gotten the war closed up in a year or two. I don't think Leonardo da Vinci and Thomas Aquinas together could have accomplished that. What I am saying is that he made the huge mistake of implying, by way of rhetoric, that this could be done quickly and easily...
...Most Dangerous Game ended with a moment of silence for the world that had been, before the players brought a nuclear holocaust upon themselves. As the TV cameras blinked off I felt a curious letdown--it was all over. In four weeks we had gotten no further than a large inconclusive war; and then in one final week we had brought the world...
...worst atrocity. The Senator and a party of four hopped to the ground in Dak Son, leaving Loraine Percy in the chopper, and were met by a welcoming barrage of mortar and small-arms fire from surrounding V.C.s. "I can assure you I have never gotten closer to the ground," said Percy, who was pinned down for 15 minutes until four U.S. Army copters whirred in to bail him out. "I saw more action there than I did in three years in World...
...only Harvard squad with competition scheduled for the Christmas break. The basketball team is usually entered in a tournament, but the best Athletic Director Adolph Samborski could come up with this season is the "Bluenose Classic" in Halifax, Nova Scotia, over January 5-6. The hoopsters have gotten few breaks so far: on their slate of seven pre-Ivy games they got to play Navy here. But they got stuck with a ridiculous string of road trips, to Wesleyan, Williams, and the University of New Hampshire. The other three games are home, saving them treks to B.U., Northeastern, and tonight...
...South Vietnamese soldiers encouraged the Americans and confirmed for them that what they were doing was right: Sloan received two medals from the South Vietnamese, one of them their highest medal of honor. When he was about to leave he was given a farewell dinner. "Only when I had gotten some distance form the fighting did the justification for the war begin to erode," Sloan said...