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...widening of that seemingly endless conflict. The new government of Cambodian Premier General Lon Nol, reeling under widespread Communist border attacks, issued a plea to the world for military aid. In South Viet Nam, the Communists intensified their rocket attacks as part of a spring campaign that may peak about May 19, Ho Chi Minh's birthday. For a moment, however, there was the flickering hope of a diplomatic breakthrough in the war: the Soviet Union, reversing a longstanding policy, raised the possibility of convening a new Geneva conference, presumably like the ones that twice before have drafted plans...
...Tigers are a strong, fast boat, but they tend to peak early in the season and after a harrowing race with Penn, are usually not up, either physically or emotionally, for what Harvard is prepared to throw at them...
...else to bolster his argument. His dialogue is only a part of a most imposing whole, and so we forgive it its deficiencies. So when Kramer's screenplay captures the dialogue, but neglects those elements of the novel that support it, it really is like cutting off the visible peak of an iceberg, thinking you've preserved the entire thing whole, What results is rather more silly than imposing...
With the new cutback announcement, the authorized U. S. troop ceiling in South Vietnam by May 1971 will be 284,000 compared with a peak of 549,000 in early...
...from the year before-a rare event. Last week IBM reported a turnaround in the first quarter; profits rose to $2.02 a share, from $1.82 a year earlier. Its own stock jumped 5¾ points on the news, to close at 331½-still far down from the January peak of 387. The IBM report pulled up prices of some other computer stocks too, but they also remained far below earlier highs. Control Data dropped to 49⅛, less than half its January peak of 122½. "Wall Street, not Seventh Avenue, is the fashion center of New York," said...