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...Administration's failure, after last October's Cuba crisis, to follow through on U.S. demands for on-site missile inspection and the removal of Russian troops, came as a staggering blow to Miro. The last straw came when the Administration, without advising Miro beforehand, announced an all-out crackdown on the exiles' hit-and-run raids against Cuba...
...suggest that the United States should withdraw all assistance from South Vietnam is a non sequitur equating 12 million people with one man. It is like saying that they must now pay for his mistakes, mistakes which the United States government itself has helped to perpetuate by giving him blind, all-out support...
...these matches, Orville Freeman, 44, displays qualities useful to any U.S. Secretary of Agriculture-an all-out combativeness coupled with the ability to lose, mutter "Aw, shucks" and return to the fray. For Freeman's job is the most thankless in the U.S. Government. Freeman's predecessor, Republican Ezra Taft Benson, called it a "monster" and a "sordid mess." For 30 years, the Federal Government has been ineffectually wrestling with the ever bigger surpluses produced by U.S. farmers. In the process, the Agriculture Department has spent many billions of dollars, piled up huge stocks of surplus farm products...
With Awori out of the broad jump, Chris Ohiri placed third for the Crimson with a leap of 23 ft. 5 in. According to Coach McCurdy, Ohiri might have won the competition, but he reinjured his knee in the preliminaries and was able to make only one all-out jump in the finals...
Last week Tokyo's sanitation department joined forces with a passel of private exterminators in an all-out campaign to keep the Ginza for people. With military precision, anti-rat guerrillas fanned out through darkened department stores in stockinged feet, coordinating their offensive by means of walkie-talkies. "This is C Team calling B Team." whispered one communications man to the unit on the floor below him. "I hear rats on the eastern side of the floor scurrying down. Close door immediately. Over...