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...Cliffies led M.I.T. eight to ten points during most of the regatta. But in the next-to-last race, Miss Fransson withdrew for an alleged foul and earned only one point, for having entered the race...
...other cases, the neo-isolationist mood may well feed on popular discouragement over Viet Nam. But, as Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach noted recently at Connecticut's Fairfield University, it would be "a grievous and dangerous delusion to believe all our problems would be solved if we withdrew from Viet Nam, or from Asia, or from anywhere else." From Latin America, New York Times Columnist C. L. Sulzberger wrote last week: "Our humiliation in Viet Nam would persuade guerrilla nuclei here of the efficacy of 'national liberation' wars. Our adversaries know, even...
Yadin believes that the Temple Scroll was considered part of the Bible by Qumran. The parchment reinforces the scholarly conviction that the Qumran community consisted of ascetic, apocalyptically minded Jews who withdrew from the turmoil of Jerusalem to await the end of the world, and whose zeal to purify their faith in some sense foreshadowed that of Jesus and the early Christians...
Firemen saw smoke coming out of the air conditioning ducts, but they found no fire. The deputy fire chief considered the situation safe and withdrew his trucks and men from the building...
...told that Van Bellinghen was referring to France's Charles de Gaulle. When De Gaulle served NATO headquarters with an eviction notice 19 months ago and withdrew from the military side of the alliance, NATO defenses were visibly weakened-if only by the loss of France's 72,000-man contingent, based in Germany. Yet NATO still remains strong enough to meet any challenge. To counteract the 1,300,000 Soviet-bloc troops deployed through Eastern Europe. NATO maintains an army of 2,500,000 men, organized into ground and air divisions based at NATO installations extending...