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This revolutionary formula brought potent results. Saigon withdrew at the first upsurge in NLF militancy, and wide tracts of rural South Vietnam began to implement massive reforms under liberation force leadership. Diem and his handful of allies, trapped in the cities, began to totter...
...American in his junior year, Hynes displayed the speed and quick wrist shot that made him the best left wing in intercollegiate hockey before he withdrew from Harvard at mid-year...
...began running four years ago to stay in shape, soon became hooked enough to enter local races. Just a year ago he started serious training for the Boston Marathon, dutifully logging ten miles each evening in a park near his home. After sending in his $2 entry fee, Sauer withdrew $300 from his "Boston Marathon fund" and flew east for a long, punishing weekend. "Runners like myself don't expect to win," he said prophetically. "We have the competitive urge, but we run against ourselves." His wife Pat, who has learned to spice her menus with such runner...
...heavy administrative structure. Last year United Church of Christ executives issued a report sharply criticizing the whole merger design, and Eugene Carson Blake's own United Presbyterians, in a surprise vote, pulled out of the talks altogether. Then, this month, delegates at a national COCU meeting in Memphis withdrew the merger plan entirely. As an alternative, they discussed a more low-key approach based on practical cooperation among local congregations-sharing the same churches, for example, and experimenting with common services...
...portrayed the college's scruffy students as rich freaks who spent more time at drug and sex orgies than at their books. The notoriety so unnerved the trustees that they fired the president. Before long, half the 40-member faculty quit and a third of the 240 students withdrew. Insurance companies suddenly canceled policies. Worried creditors soon forced the college into voluntary bankruptcy...