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...that inane reverse-and double-reverse Gaston-and-Alphonse jig that Lyndon and Aleksei trotted out, what would have happened if the surveyor had missed the halfway point by a hundred feet? Would they have thrown up a tent in the backyard and torn up poor old Tom Robinson's rose garden? Honestly...
Russian leaders are torn between the two policies. As a result, Russia has made scant headway along either course. Certainly, the Soviets' client states have grown increasingly skeptical of Moscow's interest in their cherished "wars of liberation." By contrast, the overwhelming U.S. commitment to South Viet Nam has persuaded many nations in Asia and elsewhere that Washington is willing to support its commitments...
...left with 72 men in our platoon and came back with 19," wrote a Marine Corps rifleman to his family after the battle. "Believe it or not, you know what killed most of us? Our own rifle. Practically every one of our dead was found with his [M16] torn down next to him where he had been trying to fix it." TV newsmen, in particular, took up the cry that U.S. troops were being betrayed by their own weapons. Last week two congressional subcommittees were studying the "M16 controversy...
...date, Cleveland's urban renewal program has torn down 4,255 dwelling units-yet it has replaced only 2,000. Of the 4,487 families who lived in those apartments and duplexes, only 114 found their way into public housing, while nearly 1,700 families disappeared entirely from official records. Though 25,000 Cleveland families are eligible for public housing, only 7,478 units are available, and a scant 2,500 more are planned for the near future. Much of the fault lies with lackadaisical Democratic Mayor Ralph Locher, who took over Cleveland's fate when Anthony Celebrezze...
...Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial Writer George Hall dines with certain friends, he knows that he is welcome-but his paper is so detested that it is not allowed over the doorstep. When St. Louis Public Relations Man Harry Wilson has an important news item for the press, he is torn between releasing it in time for the morning Globe-Democrat or the afternoon Post-Dispatch-either way, one of the papers is sure to squawk. When Globe Food Editor Marian O'Brien was writing a column recently, she got carried away by the combative sense of loyalty that seems...