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...these nightmarish conditions will take tough, well-trained troops, and last week the U.S. and its allies were quietly preparing such a force. A token group of Australian infantrymen last week took station at Bienhoa airbase-part of a joint 1,000-man Australian-New Zealand contribu tion to the war effort. Two thousand South Koreans are already in Viet Nam, and Seoul still echoes with rumors of another 15,000-man South Korean combat force being readied for Viet Nam service...
...Australia's Ron Clarke, 28: the 5,000-meter run in 13 min. 25.8 sec., clipping 7.8 sec. off his own world mark and breaking the three-mile record along the way; at the Compton Invitational track meet in Los Angeles. Clarke stole the limelight from New Zealand's Peter Snell, 26, the world record holder in the mile, who had to run a 55.1-sec. final quarter to edge Oregon's Jim Grelle with both men clocking a fast 3 min. 56.4 sec. The Aussie's great run made it four new world records...
Under Roche, G.M.'s overseas sales m 1964 were 22% higher than in 1963 and double 1958 sales. New G.M plants as well as styling and engineering centers have been built or are rising in Britain, Germany, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Mexico and Peru. In 1966, when all the construction that began under Roche is completed, G.M. will have doubled its 962 overseas production capacity...
...Ombudsmen are officers, in Scandinavian countries and New Zealand, to whom a citizen with a grievance against the government can turn for intercession and relief...
...Kansas' Jim Ryun, 18: a 3-min. 58.3-sec. mile, fastest ever run by a high-schooler and only 4.2 sec. off the world record held by New Zealand's Peter Snell; in a meet at Wichita. Passing the three-quarter-mile mark in 3 min. 2 sec. Ryun sprinted the last quarter in 56.3 sec., clipped 3.7 sec. off his own high school record set last month...