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Today the American team is in Birmingham preparing for a meet tomorrow against the University of Birmingham. COACH BILL McCURDY handled the strategy for the successful Harvard-Yale team yesterday. Before leaving the country, he had said, "If they peak for this meet, it could be one of the strongest overall Harvard-Yale teams ever." The Americans weren't spectacular, but they managed...
...North, followed in early March by the first U.S. ground-combat units going ashore near Danang. Surely nobody then in the White House, the Pentagon or Congress could have imagined that the commitment would grow to more than half a million men and the cost, at its peak, to nearly $30 billion a year; that more than six years later there would still be a quarter of a million Americans there; that in the first week of June 1971 the total of American dead would increase from 45,183 to 45,231. Richard Nixon could not have foreseen this when...
...Peak to Come. The cancer time bomb will continue to supply grim data. Because many ailing victims procrastinate in seeking medical help, commission physicians and statisticians have had to rely on death records to supply the full cancer census. Though the actual number of cancers detected so far in the high-risk group is only 19, the team points out that these occurred in a sampling of only 1,109 people, the oldest of whom is now just 35. Among Japanese of the same age who arrived in Hiroshima or Nagasaki after the bombings, cancer has occurred at less than...
...casualty commission sees no evidence that a peak has yet been reached. During the next ten years, the young survivors will be entering the age bracket at which cancer rates ordinarily begin to increase sharply. The doctors plan an even closer watch on their health...
Many of his fans clearly do delight in the absence of jackass antics on the show. His nightly 90 minutes of generally intelligent conversation may not really be a cause for soul searching: they assume the shape of an intellectual peak partly because the rest of the TV schedule is so flat. Cavett himself has at times fumbled badly, by letting his guests run away with the show, by standing too much in awe of their prestige, or by being unprepared. He can also be a little less than sophisticated when he feels the spirit. Radical Jerry Rubin moved...