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Appearing at a Whittier, Calif., banquet in honor of his 49th birthday, Republican Richard Nixon last week called upon both parties to "fight the extremes of the far left and the far right." The extremists are a small minority, said Nixon, "but their influence is far greater than their number because they are so active and so noisy...
Smothering Brushfires. By the end of the year, the Army will have increased from 856,000 to 1,080,000 men. Three Stateside training divisions are being elevated to combat readiness. Two National Guard divisions-the 32nd Infantry from Wisconsin and the 49th Armored from Texas-have been called up, and two more are on alert status. A total of 40,000 men will flesh out the five divisions and supporting units of the Seventh Army, which may also be reinforced by the 4th Infantry and the 2nd Armored by December. In all, the buildup this year will increase...
...foul shot by Gary Borchard made the score 15 to 11 after eight minutes, but the varsity never got so close again. When Denny Lynch sank two free throws with less than two minutes left for the Crimson's 49th and 50th points, the spectators gave him a big cheer...
...boat round the clock, the fishermen collected as much as $1,000 apiece a day. Thus did the salmon come back last week to Alaska's Bristol Bay, one of the richest salmon-fishing grounds in the world, in the biggest run in the 49th state in twelve years...
...women to sleep with but the kind of woman that is really hard for me to find is a typist who can read my writing"; stuffing his ears with cotton for days after visiting the house of Beethoven and being reminded of the composer's deafness; walking up 49th Street under Writer Nancy Hale's window chanting "I wrote 10,000 words today"; and finally, lying dead in Maryland, survived by the ringing fact that nowhere in the region could a coffin be found that was big enough for Thomas Wolfe...