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Swimming captain Mike Cahalan finished tenth last night in the 50-free at the NCAA championships at Iowa State University in Ames...
Cahalan, who had been rated tenth nationally on the basis of best times this season, finished in 21.47 in the preliminaries while competing against eventual winner Dave Edgar of Tennessee. In the consolations, Cahalan's time was 21.51. Two weeks ago, he was third in the Easterns, setting a Harvard record...
While the South Vietnamese withdrew their forces from Laos, the North Vietnamese increased their attacks on support bases in South Vietnam. They continued heavy fire for tenth day on Khe Sanh, the main U.S. support base near the border during the Laotian campaign...
...best ARVN troops also took considerable losses, probably far more than Saigon officially reported. South Vietnamese military sources admit that enlistments for such elite outfits as the paratroopers and the marines, which were hit hard in Laos, are running at one-tenth the preinvasion figures. Even more dispiriting was the rationale offered by a U.S. briefing officer in Saigon-that the incursion into Laos had "bought time" for Cambodia's neophyte army. Last year's invasion of Cambodia was also billed as buying time-for the army of South Viet...
...says now: "My violent behavior is some sort of aberration, a character defect I'm not particularly proud of." Struggling to temper what he calls "my terrible fire," he remains acutely aware that he is still in danger of being consumed by the flames. From his view in the tenth row, Scott can also see that this is a risk that a great actor must...