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...north, Giap's 35,000 troops were stalemated by ARVN defenders around Hué and Quang Tri. North of the latter last week, a clever South Vietnamese marine commander simply evacuated his base after learning of an impending Communist night armor attack; when the North Vietnamese drove into the base, the marines opened fire from the perimeter, knocking out at least five tanks and killing scores of enemy troops. Another Communist armored force roared east on Highway 9 in the darkness, but missed the turn to its objective, Dong Ha. When the sun rose, the parked, puzzled Communists found...
...ARVN was good, it was very, very good. At Dong Ha, a town of rude wooden shacks and prosperous brick houses ten miles south of the DMZ on the banks of the Cua Viet River, one vital North Vietnamese objective was spiked by the tanks of the tough 20th Armored Squadron. As the Communist spearhead rolled south on Highway 1, the 34-ton M-48s of the 20th sped north. They met-and stopped-the Communist armor a scant 300 yards north of the Cua Viet bridge. The tankers and two companies of South Vietnamese marines held the bridge long...
...their experience: Nancy Grossman's leather-bound heads, for instance, are veritable nightmares of repression. "The work is me, my experience," says Grossman. "Everyone is a sadomasochist. The difference between me and other artists is that I admit it." So her masks, like Mary, 1971, are both armor and prison; the face and the implied personality behind it are abolished by the protective skin...
...Crimson foil squad, a weak link in Harvard's armor all year, hopes to rebound this weekend from disastrous showings against Penn and Yale. If Dave Fichter. Don Valentine and Sam Anderson can return to the level of performance that they achieved in mid-season foil action. Harvard's chances will receive a big boost...
...match will be the foil competition. Neither Penn nor Harvard is noted for its foil squad. Penn coach Lajos Csiszar said yesterday that his foil team is the weakest link in the Quakers's armor and expressed concern about their chances on Saturday...