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...signs had long been there. By the fall of 1969, it had become clear to critical observers that the new Administration was not going to opt for immediate extrication; the removal of ground troops was slow and inconclusive, and the rest of the war machinery continued to pound away at all of Indochina. President Nixon's November 1969 nationwide address-the Vietnamization speech, largely of Kissinger's design-was an attempt to buy time for the war by neutralizing domestic opposition, time which would be spent to practice strategy and tactics against the NLF and Hanoi. As one former White...
...want to exact the last ounce of blood, the last pound of flesh," Cox said Tuesday, "and they assured the court that they would not come back and take part in any further obstructive conduct...
After the first three races Reeve held a one-point lead over Doyle for first, but then the wind began to pick up and the light-124-pound-Reeve ran into trouble. But Bossett was not doing superbly, and with seven races completed Reeve was in second place by a point. Reeve managed only a seventh in the final race, while Bossett took a third to grab second place overall...
...most brilliant literary journals, the English Review (London, circa 1909) and the Transatlantic Review (Paris, circa 1923). He possessed a rare perception of genius in others. The list of writers Ford published early reads like a mail-order come-on to some 20th century great-writers anthology: Conrad, Galsworthy, Pound, E.M. Forster, Hardy, H.G. Wells, Henry James, Wyndham Lewis, James Joyce, and a chesty 25-year-old American whom Ford enraged by referring to as "young Hemingway." "Hurray!" H.G. Wells once shouted at a dinner for Ford. "Fordie's discovered another genius! Called D.H. Lawrence...
...long list of superlatives used to describe Harvard's lightweight crew has nearly been exhausted, but the fact remains that coach Steve Gladstone has assembled one of the finest 150-pound crews ever...