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Today the two couples no longer speak. Their friendship has been rent by a bitter three-month-old strike against Phelps Dodge that has divided friends and kin throughout Morenci, Clifton and a string of other copper company towns in southern Arizona...
...starvation during and after World War II. The narrative recalls that North Vietnamese Leader Ho Chi Minh collaborated at the end of that war with U.S. intelligence agents and modeled Viet Nam's 1945 declaration of independence on America's. These facts could lead to a romantic string of what-ifs; indeed, some former U.S. diplomats contend on-camera that Ho might have become a U.S. ally. But the documentary is careful to depict Ho's lifelong commitment to Communism and his close ties with the Soviet Union and China...
Sternin's current job is the latest in a long, colorful string of vocations. In 1962 he joined the Peace Corps and was sent to the Philippines. "It was some- thing brand new and JFK said to do it," he jokes. After four years abroad, he moved to Washington and worked as a freelance musician, writing commercial jingles...
...Crimson girders are discovering that at quarterback, two heads aren't better than one. The lack of an obvious first-string signal caller leaves Harvard without consistent leadership in the huddle. More tangibly, the quarterback confusion robs the team of a considerable portion of its offense...
...Harvard Band's performance at Saturday's football game against UMass indicates that the days of good humor are gone--leaving behind only bad taste. In a string of "jokes" which left few of the 20,000 spectators laughing, the band made light of the recent deaths of Marines in Lebanon and the tragic downing of Korean Airlines flight 007. Thankfully for traditionalists, the group did wind up its act Saturday by awkwardly converting "UNION" into "PUKE"--certainly no mean feat...