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...company of the famed 1st Infantry Division ("the Big Red One") was ambushed by the Viet Cong while engaging in a 10,000 man search-and-destroy sweep called Operation Abilene. Outnumbered 4 to 1, the Americans fought amid the cries of their wounded until the Viet Cong finally withdrew. Army spokesmen described the U.S. losses as "heavy," indicating that at least a third of the 178-man company was killed or wounded...
High interest sent the biggest issue of all surging back from the market the same day that it was to come on. The New Jersey Turnpike Authority withdrew a scheduled $440 million of income tax-exempt bonds because the only bid from underwriters meant a 4.23% interest rate, quite a bit more than had been expected. The bonds would have financed doubling the six-lane width of the 30 miles of turnpike nearest to New York City...
...Schollander) who won four gold medals at the 1964 Olympics? Then there are Cornell's hockey players and Pennsylvania's league champion basketball team. From now on, though, nobody will know for sure how good any of the Ivy athletes are-because last week the league angrily withdrew from all N.C.A.A. championship competition...
...four-man competition got under way, a U.S. sled overturned at the Zig-Zag, injuring two of the crew. At that, the wife of the next competitor in line, Lake Placid's own Joe McKillip, begged her husband: "Don't go. Please don't go." McKillip withdrew. His place was taken by Sergio Zardini, 34, an Italian who moved to Canada two years ago. Zardini was the 1963 four-man world champion, and he had won the Diamond Trophy two years in a row. Just a day before, on the same course, he had driven...
...pounder who proclaimed shortly after taking over: "I know how to handle a sick company." Carter was lured from a Corning Glass vice-presidency nine years ago with a stock option offer of 23,800 shares (he now owns 52,250 shares worth almost $11 million). Sherman Fairchild withdrew discreetly to the board, has been more concerned with his chairmanship of the completely separate Fairchild Hiller aerospace firm, which recently bought Republic Aviation...