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...traditionally anti-Chinese country. He has provided his own political label: his adopted name means "Long March," after Mao Tse-tung's epic 7,000-mile trek to sanctuary in Yenan in 1934. Chinh may be too far out on Peking's political limb to head up Hanoi's middle-of-the-road leadership. Moreover, he has been at odds with both Le Duan and General Giap. With Ho gone as a mediating force, Chinh could find himself isolated by his enemies-unless he manages to isolate them first...
Most administrators are determined to brook no violence. "We are making it clear this year," says University of Houston President Philip Hoffman, "that we are not going to hesitate to bring in the police or the district attorney whenever violence threatens property or life and limb." The University of Miami established a new security office last May; its first director, Fred Doerner Jr., a former legal counsel for the F.B.I., has since hired an assistant and 32 uniformed guards to patrol the campus round the clock...
...course, some people are naturally conservative; they prefer to avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb when they don't know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be junked and replaced with the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around a point...
Coming around the eastern limb of the moon on their first revolution, the astronauts began sending another TV show to earth. This time they focused the camera on the desolate landscape below. After a long period of silence, a Houston capsule communicator pleaded: "Would you care to comment on some of those craters as we go by?" At last the astronauts came to life...
...Charles, Prince of Wales, do become your liege man of life and limb and of earthly worship, and faith and truth I will bear unto you to live and die against all manner of folks...