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General Van Fleet's headquarters had issued an order, the gist of which was: don't shoot unless you are shot at. It would have been better if the Eighth Army commander had called U.N. newsmen in beforehand, and told them what he was doing instead of letting them draw their own conclusions from what they saw and heard at the front. The ensuing high-level ruckus, which reverberated all the way to Washington and Key West (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), did not trouble the men in the front lines. Using a bayonet to dig chunks of ham from...
...casual spectator would have been able to tell what sport was being played Saturday afternoon on the Amherst soccer field unless he had read about it in the papers beforehand. The weather was so miserable that the Harvard-Amherst soccer game, which the Lord Jeffs won, 2 to 0, was reduced to a complete farce...
...just off the Grand Canal. To avoid the clatter of dishwashing at his fancier banquets, Host Labia frequently ordered his soiled gold tableware chucked into the canal at the end of each course. (The ugly gossip was that he had laid a stout fish net on the canal bottom beforehand.) The Labias and their dinnerware have long since passed into oblivion, but last week the Labia palace was all lit up again for the biggest binge cosmopolite café society had seen in a doge...
...impossible. It's no help to the government to have a press which only praises it." Then, though Venezuela now lives under a military dictatorship, he said forthrightly that armies should not mix in government: "Anyone who uses the army as an instrument for political aspirations is defeated beforehand." After this ringing statement, Plaza tactfully decorated the three members of Venezuela's ruling junta...
Board of Strategy. Robinson is the first to admit that a good part of his success in the ring comes from careful planning beforehand, and shrewd coaching from his corner. During the fight Manager Gainford and Trainer Beale keep a sharp watch on both fighters, looking for trouble before it starts, quick to spot an enemy weakness. Says Robinson: "They can see better than me. I'm always watching my man. But they can see that he drops his right hand a little bit after throwing a right punch. They tell me to draw his right and then...