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With the federal capture of Owerri two weeks ago, Nigeria's civil war entered a new and perhaps final phase. Secessionist Biafra, now less than one-tenth its original size, holds but one important town: Umuahia. Should it fall, Lieut. Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu would lose his last physical claim on breakaway statehood and be forced, if he is still able, to carry on his fight for Biafra's Ibo people from the jungle. As it advanced slowly but steadily on Umuahia last week, TIME Correspondent Edward Hughes joined Nigeria's 3rd Marine Commando division. His report...
Fewer than one-tenth of the normalsized Economics I enrollment probably will take the course pass-fail; and in several other courses, where official tallies have not been made, few students have requested enrollment on a pass-fail basis...
...this has helped to sell his poetry. Selected Poems 1956-1968, published months ago, has sold more than 20,000 copies. Sales for the average collection rarely hit one-tenth that figure...
...one-sentence catalogue of its contents does not do Wait a Minim justice. What makes its 21/2 hour running-time seem one-tenth as long as the uninhibited zaniness that keeps the performers flying through their material. They do everything and anything. In one sketch, medieval knights running around in cloaks bearing the peace symbol suddenly break into a ludicrous song about a chastity belt. Ten minutes later a thumping South African chant turns into a wild dance accompanied by a myriad of homemade instruments. When they aren't singing, the company takes turns playing whites and blacks shooting each...
...varsity's 6:08.3 time, just one-tenth second shy of a course record, left Cornell and Pennsylvania far behind, and capped a phenomenally successful collegiate season. The lightweights meet tomorrow afternoon at Newell Boathouse to decide whether to go to Henley...