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...same time, the students withdrew demands that the planning of the complex be stopped until it could be reviewed by students and faculty...
...membership--last year it was seven hundred, this year it's two hundred fifty." The exec board had not met since November, and the YD's had gone all semester without a speakers program. The incumbent president promised reforms, made a half-hearted attempt at re-election, and finally withdrew, saying the YD's weren't worth saving...
...must have been a fairly orderly Chinese withdrawal, however: the Russians admit that they have no idea of the attacker's casualties because the Chinese took their dead and wounded with them when they fell back. Before they withdrew, they held the ground long enough to inflict some "bloodcurdling brutalities," says Moscow. "The Chinese fired point-blank at the wounded and bayoneted them. The faces of some of the slain Soviet soldiers were so mutilated that they were unrecognizable...
...parked alongside the curb in a middle-class residential neighborhood of New York City. Two men got out, removed the license plates, and opened the hood slightly to make the car look as if it had been stolen or left alone while its owner went for help. Then they withdrew to a nearby window, where-unseen-they could watch what was to happen...
...grandfather. He recalls that "we always wanted to know what was going on in Detroit"-and at 18 he was sent on a two-month auto tour of the U.S. Gianni saw World War II from both sides, first as a tank officer on the Russian front. After Italy withdrew from the war in 1943, he joined an Italian outfit that fought alongside General Mark Clark's Fifth Army...