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...preview of the varsity horror show later in the afternoon, the Crimson J.V. squad succumbed to Penn 12-7 last Saturday. The game was played on mud-soaked Murphy Field, three hours before the Varsity was defeated on Franklin Field...
...tree line only to be wiped out to the last man. The South Vietnamese commander tried to rush up reinforcements, but soupy weather had closed in and helicopters could no longer get through. As night fell, many of the wounded, who could not be evacuated, died helplessly in the mud. The final government toll was 42 dead and 85 wounded, plus 13 American advisers wounded. Under cover of darkness, the Viet Cong abandoned Loc Ninh and slipped away aboard sampans down a river, leaving behind 30 dead...
...average family's ten or eleven children, only four or five survive infancy. Life centers around the mud-brick cook hut where feeble fires of roots, sticks and llama dung struggle in the thin air. Indians who make it through childhood live to an average age of 32-without taking a bath, without taking a pill, without sleeping on a real bed. Most are solemn and docile, apparently cowed by their environment, except when there is an excuse for a fiesta and they can gulp caña (a potent, sugar-based liquor). Then, a missionary says, "a young...
Sink or Swim. Home has considered the issue more carefully than he is often given credit for, is on record with a remarkable statement of Britain's domestic challenges. "For the trade unions," he has said, "the choice is whether to remain sunk in the stick-in-the-mud attitudes of the twenties and thirties, a prey to Depression fixations, meeting today's prosperity with yesterday's attitudes of mind, or whether to operate an up-to-date organization in modern conditions of affluence, where the object would be to produce as much wealth as possible...
...month in which Algerian troops killed ten Moroccan soldiers, Hassan mobilized his crack, 35,000-man royal army. The immediate military targets were two tiny, desolate outposts: Hassi Beida, little more than a water hole and a few palm trees perched on a stony hill, and Tin-joub, a mud-walled fort seven miles to the east. One day last week a battalion of 1,000 Moroccan infantry armed with bazookas, recoilless cannon and heavy machine guns stormed both outposts, seized them after a four-hour battle in which at least ten Algerians were slain. By sunset the outnumbered Algerians...