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...arrives at Shrivings to seek his lost faith through a mordant challenge to the old man's sweet reasonableness: If Askelon is given license to spend a weekend attacking Shrivings and everyone in it, will Sir Gideon's beliefs enable him to forbear, or will he be stung into betraying those beliefs by violently ejecting Askelon...
...Harvard skiers, stung by a costly St. Lawrence rally at the Easterns (EISA) last weekend, will try to take revenge on the Larries and the other top EISA finishers today and tomorrow when they compete at Middlebury, the last stop on the carnival tour...
...pound bout. Colin Mangrum battled Cornell captain Ben Bishop to the end, but Bishop emerged with a fatal 7-6 victory. Stung by a second consecutive narrow loss, Lee admitted, "It was tight, but Bishop deserved...
Apparently stung by Lodge's sudden departure, North Viet Nam Delegate Xuan Thuy took sharp issue in Paris with Lodge's portrayal of the Communist negotiators as intransigent. He told the New York Times' Harrison Salisbury that he had repeatedly offered to meet privately with Lodge to discuss "general problems" affecting South Viet Nam. Lodge had refused, claimed Thuy, because the discussion would not be confined to mutual troop withdrawals. What else did Thuy want to talk about? Plans for a coalition government in the South-a topic Lodge obviously could not discuss unless there were...
...Viet Nam speech, other events converged on the President demanding his attention. His address on Latin America, which proved more pragmatic than inspiring, drew a mixed response south of the border. The General Electric strike posed a threat to the economy (see THE WORLD and BUSINESS). Nixon was stung by the Supreme Court decision insisting on the instant school integration that he had earlier termed "extreme...