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...Saigon, Bob Anson pieced together a narrative of the events that led to the historic commitment. Burt Pines was already trailing Vietnamese armored units in his TIME & LIFE Jeep. As troops rolled into Prasaut, 20 miles across the border, Pines breakfasted with III Corps Commander Lieut. General Do Cao Tri, who invited him along for a helicopter inspection of the battlefield...
VASKO POPA, now considered the most prominent Yugoslavian poet, was born in 1923, and so belongs to that generation of Eastern European poets who endured World War II when they were young; Ted Hughes, writing on Popa in Tri-Quarterly, has documented their response to what they witnessed during those years...
Ruses Aloft. While most of the youths stood guard over the 122 other passengers, the leader, 27-year-old Takamaro Tamiya, pushed aside the stewardesses, who were handing out hot towels, and made his way into the unlocked cockpit of the tri-jet Boeing 727. At sword's point, he ordered Captain Shinji Ishida to set a course for the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, 625 miles away. Using the public address mike, the skyjackers warned that they carried bombs and would blow up the plane if their orders were not obeyed. In their belts and sticking...
Dressed in tri-corner hat, colonial waistcoat, knee knickers, and silk stockings, Curtis expounded on the horrors of the British armed occupation : "our beauteous virgins exposed to all the insolence of unbridled passion. and our virtuous wives falling a sacrifice to worse than brutal violence...
After only six minutes of play, Cornell tri-captain Dan Lodboa had put the Ithacans ahead, and the Harvard defense was experiencing noticeable difficulty keeping the aggressive Big Red forwards out of its zone. But sophomore Leif Rosenberger put a shot by Cornell goalkeeper Brian Cropper at 7:22, and Harvard was back even again...