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...people at fedayeen hands, attacked guerrilla bases in "Fatahland" between the Hasbani River and Lebanon's Syrian border. The raids were almost surgical, reported TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott after a visit to the village of Rashaya al Foukhar, one of five communities that the Israelis occupied overnight. Alerted by the sound of a spotter plane and the thud of incoming artillery rounds, the 500 Christian villagers had taken refuge in their church. Israeli soldiers dynamited 15 houses, twelve of which had been occupied by guerrillas, and bulldozed dirt roads to permit a speedy return if necessary. They also left...
...credibility of a President may well suffer, notes Yale Historian John Blum, when he asks Americans to switch their image of China-virtually from Fu Manchu to Charlie Chan-almost overnight. When a leader seems to turn against his own once passionately stated views, he may not be taken too seriously when he adopts an emphatic new stance; that, after all, may also soon change. Yet it is also refreshing and reassuring to find that world leaders are proving flexible enough to change their attitudes toward each other at a time when change in so many other spheres of life...
Perhaps the biggest problem the Harvard team will have this afternoon will be staying awake. The Harvard Department of Athletics, adhering to its iron-clad policy of busing whenever possible, has ruled out the possibility of an overnight to New Haven, and as a result the team bus will have to depart from Cambridge at the ungodly hour...
...sleep. "Leaving that early won't be helpful," said Gambril in an example of classic understatement, Co-captain Paul Horvitz could only say "Zzzzzzzz....", while his teammates's reactions varied from apathy to outright anger. Perhaps next year the Athletic Department bureaucracy can scrape up enough money for an overnight, but the team's chances against Yale this year will not be helped by this faux...
...Overnight Cure. Roberts still believes in and practices faith healing. Many of the cures he describes might be dismissed as psychogenic, but some-which he duly emphasizes-are not so easily explained. One of the most striking stories in his catalogue of claimed cures goes back to the early '50s, when he prayed with a crippled ten-year-old boy in Roanoke, Va. As the story goes, the boy's withered leg- 21 inches short - grew back to normal overnight...