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...those grisly distinctions reserved for small bits of strategic land in wartime. In a 36-day battle that ranked as one of the bloodiest and bitterest of the Pacific war, 6,821 Americans and all but 212 of the 22,000 Japanese defenders died there in 1945. Midway through their fight, on Mount Suribachi, the straining Marines raised the U.S. flag in a scene captured for posterity in a famous photograph. Their feat was commemorated on a bronze tablet laid atop Suribachi, with the U.S. flag flying above it. Now the flag has been lowered as a concession to Japanese...
...famed Crimson defense held tight for the rest of the first period, but midway through the second quarter the favored Indians roared back...
...JACK BENNY SPECIAL (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Lucille Ball, Johnny Carson, Ben Blue and Paul Revere and the Raiders join Jack on the midway for "Jack Benny's Carnival Nights," featuring cameo appearances by Bob Hope, Dean Martin, Danny Thomas and the Smothers Brothers in the guise of assorted sideshow performers and carny characters...
Last Tuesday when a new School of Nursing was to be dedicated and named for Gordon and his wife, no one doubted that SDS would be picketing the event. But midway through the morning, Gordon's son says, the family got a call from B.U. President Arland F. Christ-Janer's office warning that there would be "outsiders picketing and that violence was possible if the family attended. The sinister "outsiders," according to SDS, were a small group from CORE who had no plans for violence, but these explanations came after the fact: Gordon cancelled the gift at noon Tuesday...
...student, Winfield fenced for the freshman team, but dropped off the varsity midway through last season to do battle with Chem 20. Returning to sabre competition this year, he fashioned an 11-4 Ivy record and earned himself a slot on the all-Ivy team, despite the Crimson's cellar finish...