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...commanded the Alamo...
Last week some two to three thousand U.S. Marines, most of them now dead or wounded, gave the nation a name to stand beside those of Concord Bridge, the Bonhomme Richard, the Alamo, Little Big Horn and Belleau Wood. The name was Tarawa...
...death while I was talking." After he won last week's Open at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, N.Y., with a 275 that tied Jack Nicklaus' record, somebody asked Trevino what he planned to do with his $30,000 winner's check. "Buy the Alamo," he said, "and give it back to Mexico...
...VIOLENCE used by police on Tuesday morning, only too familiar to veterans of civil rights and peace demonstrations, quickly created a campus united behind the demonstrators' original six demands. The atmosphere on Morningside Heights combined the French Commune and Remember the Alamo with Samuel Beckett. Interspersed in the lazy groups of students lounging on sunny lawns or arguing in tense knots by the steps of some now-famous buildings were about 200 students who looked like they'd fallen off a medium-sized building, or been in a prize fight or a bad automobile accident. There were many closed purple...
...thing, because HemisFair '68, which last week opened its six-month run, gives a big lift to the civic pride of San Antonio, long a sleepy city (pop.: 755,550) at the edge of the Texas hill country, previously noted mainly as the site of the Alamo. For another, it stimulates tourism: officials estimate conservatively that, during HemisFair, 7,500,000 people will visit San Antonio and will spend $35 million there...