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...dismaying prospect for any rational conduct of politics is that increasingly militant demonstrators plan to turn out in force wherever Johnson and his Cabinet members go in coming months. When Secretary of State Dean Rusk addressed the Foreign Policy Association in Manhattan last week, he had to slip into the garage entrance of the New York Hilton an hour ahead of time to avoid some 3,000 pickets. Most were moderates, but some, spearheaded by the Students for a Democratic Society and a handful of radicals from the Trotskyite-Maoist Progressive Labor Party, came equipped with plastic bags...
...model-railroad buff, raises horses and collects antique carriages (he has two dozen) at his 4,200 acre farm in Salem, N.J. He and his wife, former United Press Correspondent Liz Toomey (whom he met at Grace Kelly's wedding to Monaco's Prince Rainier), often slip into 18th century costume for champagne-sipping country outings amid the asparagus and spinach; in winter they like to take guests across the fields for picnic dinners in the snowy woods...
...Crimson, who had to come from behind to slip by Dartmouth last week, will have their hands full with the Quakers. The Penn defense as been scored upon only twice in seven games, while the Quakers have piled up 13 goals of their own in their last three outings...
...first publicized exploit of a new kind of force operating in South Viet Nam's Delta: the Prews, or Provisional Reconnaissance Units. Informally advised by U.S. Navy officers and made up largely of former Viet Cong who have defected, the Prews are primarily night raiders who slip into territory in which the Viet Cong feel secure, turning the enemy's hit-and-run tactics back on him. "We operate where the Viet Cong haven't been bothered before," explains McMahon. "They don't dare sleep in their houses any more. They sleep in the fields...
...Harvard freshman soccer team struck early with goals by Solomon Gomez and Peter Bogovich, then hung on to slip by Dartmouth 2-1, yesterday at home...