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...were looking on the screens most eagerly. And now we have learned from the press about Apollo 14 [Feb. 22] and its tremendous success. We are proud of our Soviet motherland's own great achievements in space research, but equally we are delighted by this brilliant necklace of heroic moon trips of the American astronauts. It is my desire that others should join with our two great countries in peaceful cooperation in space research to the good...
...Soviets, by his plausible account, really are providing the greatest good for the greatest number. Very briefly, the reader is reminded of the coldly logical dialogues in Darkness at Noon between the old Bolshevik Rubashov and his inquisitor, Gletkin. But little in Vandenberg's sulky response is heroic, or even intelligent. In effect, he simply shrugs. He is not interested in the greatest number. All he wants is for society to leave him alone...
...time being, however, Allende has never been more popular with Chileans at large. He has distributed some 5,230 tons of powdered milk in a heroic (though not quite successful) effort to keep his campaign pledge to provide a quart of milk a day for every Chilean under 15. His government has ordered 500,000 pairs of shoes for free distribution to rural schoolchildren. He has refused to permit the customary presidential portrait to be hung in government buildings and budgeted the savings to rural health programs. By imposing price controls, he hopes to shrink inflation from...
...match against the Crimson but the Lions were in command until victories by Rich Starr (177 pounds), Dave Scanlon(190 pounds), and heavyweight Tom Tripp wiped out the possibility of an upset. The Crimson's three bout rally at the finish of the match was a duplicate of the heroic performances pulled off by the trio in Harvard's 17-15 upset of Springfield last week...
...Fort Bragg. For a time they were American heroes. In 1965, Robin Moore's novel The Green Berets became a bestseller, and a year later, Barry Sadler's Ballad of the Green Berets went to the top of the song charts. John Wayne even made a mock-heroic hagiographical film, which among the young became Middle America's answer to The Graduate...