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...Board of Overseers yesterday passed "with no serious objection" a newly designed 11-by-17-inch parchment diploma, printed in English but with a more ornate design than the controversial "modernized" diplomas issued last year...
...overpasses snaked through and around the cities. Some of the results were beautiful as well as functional; some were just functional. In Trinidad. Colo., for example, through travelers on U.S. Highway 85 used to drive down curving Commercial Street, make a right-angle turn at Main Street, then inch their way out of town through heavy traffic. The Colorado highway department solved the problem, if not the esthetics, by building a huge overpass smack over the town...
...total impact of Khrushchev's rocket-rattling offensive upon Americans was precisely the opposite of anything the Soviet dictator might have desired. For the vast majority of U.S. citizens remained resolved to face Communist pressure without yielding an inch-and many were preparing, in their own individual ways, to meet Khrushchev's worst...
Next day, as Sergeant Duarte and his men were laying out red markers in a field for a supply airdrop, Viet Cong snipers fired from the bush. The first bullets whizzed by within an inch of Duarte's head. He hit the dirt and, on signal, his Rangers began an enveloping movement that soon silenced the guerrillas. "Just the way they were taught in training," said Duarte proudly. "They're brave men and good soldiers." But he is both baffled and grudgingly impressed by the Communist enemy. Says Duarte: "The Viet Cong have the initiative. They also have...
...auto industry) 135 h.p., cast-iron V-6 engine, which replaces the more expensive aluminum V-8 and cuts $100 off last season's list prices. In styling, both the compact and standard Buicks are little changed, although the standard Buick's extra inch in width and two to four in length lend it a lower, more massive look...