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...pulling away from Khe Sanh, leaving perhaps only 7,000 of the estimated 30,000 Communist troops that once encircled the base. But the U.S. command is convinced that North Viet Nam's General Vo Nguyen Giap, if he ever intended to attack Khe Sanh, was forced to abandon the idea and the siege because of his losses under relentless allied air bombardment...
...Rise up and abandon the creeping meatball!" goes the rallying cry, and it has brought to the Yippie standard such underground gurus and goblins as Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, Realist Editor Paul Krassner and Jerry Rubin, a key organizer of the Pentagon March. Hard-core Yippies may number as few as 400 nationwide, but Fug Sanders reckons that the total following may now have reached...
...even throw in Thailand and Laos to keep Ho happy. In a couple of years, we can let him have Korea and Japan; about 1975, Hawaii. Or, we could allow U.S. naval and air forces to place full pressure on North Viet Nam with conventional weapons, forcing Ho to abandon this little endeavor in the South. Oh, I'm sorry! I forgot that we might hurt some civilians, or damage a Russian vessel, or call down world opinion upon ourselves. Oh well, the casualty rates aren't too awfully...
...paper views the comings and goings of these fair-weather residents with a wry Yankee eye. Max Eastman, Saul Bellow, Thomas Hart Benton, James Cagney, Leonard Bernstein are the stuff of summer gossip. Such is its relish for celebrities that the Gazette mixes fact' with fantasy in breezy abandon. One memorable item revealed that "Truman Capote and Geraldine Chaplin have checked into the bridal suite of the Menemsha...
...glorious and unbelievable meet. But unfortunately it proved to be Harvard's dying gasp in Eastern League Swimming. The freshman meet that day foretold a bleak Crimson future. The Elis, led by Steve Clark, crushed the Yardlings 61-34, setting NCAA, pool, and University records with reckless abandon...