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...Independence Palace, the reply was a hail of fire. Retreating across the streets, the Communists took up positions in a half-completed hotel, killed the first two Jeep loads of U.S. MPs who raced to the scene and commandeered their M-60 machine gun. In a pattern of stubborn pocket resistance to be repeated throughout Viet Nam, it took two days to shoot the Viet Cong out of the hotel...
...when the money is on the line, there is still no tougher team in all of sport. Two weeks ago, the Packers whipped a young, aggressive Los Angeles Rams club 28-7 to win the N.F.L.'s Western Conference title, and last week they subdued the stubborn Dallas Cowboys 21-17 to capture their third straight league championship...
...went according to the polls was the Rose Bowl, and even that took a remarkable performance by All-America Halfback O. J. Simpson (who carried the ball 25 times for 128 yds. and two touchdowns) before top-ranked Southern Cal could eke out a 14-3 victory over a stubborn band of sophomores from Indiana. In the Sugar Bowl, thrice-beaten, unranked Louisiana State spotted unbeaten, No. 6-ranked Wyoming a 13-0 halftime lead, then bounced back to win 20-13. In the Orange Bowl, No. 3-ranked Oklahoma beat No. 2-ranked Tennessee 26-24. The most startling...
...Governors also ran into stubborn resistance from the congressional wing of the party over the 1968 G.O.P. platform. They demanded that a moderate from their ranks be made co-chairman of the platform committee, serving on a par with the almost certain congressional spokesman, Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen. Wisconsin's Melvin Laird, chairman of the House Republican Conference and the conservative who chaired the 1964 platform committee, rejected the Governors' overtures, leaving unsettled what the tone of the 1968 G.O.P. platform will be and the kind of candidate who will be chosen...
Everyone hoped that Makarios could be persuaded to come around and that a renewal-or heightening-of the crisis could be avoided. But diplomats who remembered Makarios' stubborn and willful behavior toward the British during Cyprus' negotiations for independence were cautious. At week's end the best efforts of the peacemakers were in the hands of a very volatile and unpredictable cleric...