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...Columbia, well the Lions are ranked seventh in the nation, closing in on the March 2 confrontation with Princeton. They may not be at their competitive peak for tomorrow night's game, but they should win in a walk, especially playing in the cozy confines of their pint-sized...
...weapons. Only after the attack did Vietnamese intelligence realize that the unusual number of funerals the previous week was no accident: the Viet Cong had buried their weapons in the funeral coffins, dug them up on the night of the assault. They even test-fired their guns during the peak of the Tet celebrations, the sound of the shots mingling with that of the firecrackers going...
...elements of the contemporary harmonic and rhythmic language are mingled with sureness and originality-of a different scope certainly, but at least on an equal plane, with the kind of deeply thought-out stylishness that characterized Brubeck's jazz work at its best. "I am quitting at my peak," said Brubeck of the quartet's disbandment, and Light in the Wilderness bears this...
...risen by 70% from a year ago. The American Stock Exchange shows the most stunning gain of all: average daily volume has jumped 182% in a year, from 2,826,495 shares to 7,949,003. Last week Amex volume swelled to four successive daily records, reaching a peak of 10,160,000 shares on Thursday, highest in the Exchange's 118-year history...
...Angeles Times, which syndicated Goldwater, was sorry to see him go. Though the number of papers carrying him had dropped from a peak of 110 in 1963 to 75, it included more large metropolitan dailies. Replacing Goldwater in the Times is none other than Everett M. Dirksen, who will write one column a week. For his debut, Dirksen muted his usual flamboyance and delivered a somber little lecture on international politics. Even though India is "liberal and leftish," he wrote, even though she has seized tiny Goa, harassed Pakistan and hobbled free enterprise, she has one thing going...