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Varsity Coach Jack Barnaby believes, however, that "victory is not out of the question." Last year, his team edged a heavily favored and over-confident Yale squad, 8 to 7. This year, of course, the Crimson has the double disadvantage of playing on strange courts and after a Bring three-hour trip...
...three-hour conference and a roast-beef lunch with his old chief, General Douglas MacArthur. MacArthur, 74, who looked older and leaner, said: "The President and myself are old friends and have been associated together for many years. He asked me down not only to resume the old friendship but to discuss . . . the general strategic and military situation in various areas of the world, the Far East situation and things of that nature. He wished to get my point of view. I had a delightful luncheon and a pleasant talk." ¶ Approved the $930,343,000 development project...
...Communists launch five "human sea" assaults against Gabrielle, but Gabrielle's 600 Algerians damn and dam them. "I am full of confidence in the victorious issue of this battle," De Castries reports to Hanoi, "because of the morale of the troops." At 0900, the Communists ask for a three-hour truce so both sides may pick up their wounded. The doctors work desperately with their amputation knives while chaplains intone prayers for the dead. At 1200, the truce ends. Some 1,000 French reinforcements from Hanoi parachute into Dienbienphu. But the weather is bad, and French battle planes cannot...
...after wave, they came on through the night. In the morning, although parts of the perimeter had been caved in, the French still held the heart of Dienbienphu. The dead and wounded-many defenders and at least 1,000 Communists, said the French-were piled so thick that a three-hour cease fire was arranged, so the field could be cleared of casualties...
...simply be run through machines. It is probable, however, that only a few students, say not more than ten or fifteen percent of a class, would be interested in taking the tests. They would know that only a few exemptions would be given, and the prospect of a three-hour examination during the busy freshman week would discourage all but those who felt reasonably sure of their knowledge of a field. Certainly no one would be required to take the tests. The Committee on General Education could publish lists of requirements, stating exactly what material must be known to secure...