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...respite, proclaiming a five-day cease-fire during Tet, Viet Nam's festive New Year's holiday. Going along with the Reds, the government called a virtual halt to its own military operations. Troops poured into Saigon exploding firecrackers and firing rifles into the air (to ward off evil spirits), and the war ground to a strange near-standstill...
News Front was started in 1957 by Baldwin H. Ward, 51, a onetime advertising salesman, and nearly died at birth. Advertising, News Front's sole source of revenue, fell to three to five pages an issue during the recession of 1957-58. All told, says Ward, he dropped $400,000 before nudging News Front barely into the black last fall...
Chria Ohiri took an easy first in the broad jump with a leap of 22 ft., 11 1/4 in., enough to set a new mark for the Northeastern cage. Charles Ward tied for fifth with...
...Convention Peoples Party the nation's only legal party. But in hundreds of places the "no" boxes were sealed up or nonexistent. All the ballots carried the voter's registration number, which would make it easy to see who voted no. In Accra's Ward 22, the registration was 1,834, yet the official count showed a "yes" total of 5,791. The overall announced results: 2,682,095 yes to 2,480 no, for a 99.9% victory sweep...
When Dopfner speaks, others listen, and 2,800 people-including priests, foreign diplomats and non-Catholic clergy-gathered in Munich's Congress Hall to hear him. It turned out to be, said one excited Lutheran churchman after ward, "the first time anyone so high up in the Catholic hierarchy has made a speech quite so daring...