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...state of emergency. He also issued a pro-forma demand that all foreign troops be withdrawn from Laotian soil-while taking care to blame Hanoi for having pioneered the "illegal route of access and infiltration known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail" years ago. So as not to trigger a Communist stampede into western Laos-an event that would surely shatter Souvanna's already fragile relations with powerful Laotian rightists-the allies seemed ready to set some undeclared limits on Lam Son operations. There would be no strikes north of the 17th parallel, which forms the border between...
...GUARD he was using to prove his point was a weapon with a hair-trigger. The Ohio National Guard is the barony of Gen. Sylvester T. Del Corso, a former Army Colonel with the habit of keeping his office clock four hours fast. Del Corso appeared on televised hearings of the Scranton Commission last summer, sporting a complacent smile and carrying a large rock and a length of steel pipe which he claimed students had thrown at his men. Corso had achieved fame in Ohio before Kent by denouncing Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes as a tool of black revolutionaries...
...lungs and ape-hanger bars, booming down the freeway to rape John Doe's daughter behind the white clapboard bank: swastikas, burnt rubber, crab lice and filthy denim. It has long been obvious that the bike was heir to the cowboy's horse in movies; but if Trigger had been loaded with the sado-erotic symbolism that now, after dozens of exploitation flicks about Hell's Angels, clings to any Harley chopper, the poor nag could not have moved for groupies. As an object to provoke linked reactions of desire and outrage, the motorcycle has few equals...
...fight Jack Dempsey with one arm tied behind your back. You don't send kids to get killed and not win. Well, that's what they did. If you get out a gun, you had better be ready to pull the trigger...
...attitude toward problems facing the University other than student confrontations should become more evident over the Spring. Pusey's departure is likely to trigger a wave of resignations from old associates identified with the "Pusey years," including treasurer George F. Bennett '33, William Bentinck Smith '37, special assistant to the President, and Sargent Kennedy '28, secretary to the Corporation...