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Minutiae & Half Truths. For cocktail party dissenters, as well as the burgeoning cult of parlor detectives, the chief stimulant has been an outpouring of critical books on the subject. The biggest seller of all (110,000 copies) is Attorney Mark Lane's Rush to Judgment, which in effect is a defense brief for Oswald. Actually, the author admits: "My book is not an objective analysis; I've never said that I believe Oswald did it or did not do it. I say that had Oswald faced trial, he would not have been convicted...
...Eshkol. Sometimes they crossed over from Lebanon, sometimes from Syria, where they were actually based. But more often, they sneaked in through Jordan, where King Hussein seemed powerless to stop them. Last week, Israel finally struck back with the white-hot fury of the desert sun itself, launching its biggest, bloodiest, boldest reprisal since the Suez campaign ten years...
...terms of British membership might have cut off Australia's biggest export market. Since then, Japan has become a major outlet for Australian wool, and Red China a major purchaser of Australian wheat. Australia was a leader in founding the Asia Development Bank (which will elect its first president and board of directors this week in Tokyo), and has broadly liberalized its immigration laws to permit easier Asian entry into a society that was once nearly 100% British. At present, more than 14,000 Asian students are studying at Australian universities...
...issue was supposed to be settled last week at East Lansing, Mich., where the two best college football teams in the U.S. met in what sportswriters called "the biggest game in 20 years"-since the day in 1946 when unbeaten Army and its "Touchdown Twins," Glenn Davis and Doc Blanchard, ran head on into unbeaten Notre Dame and Johnny Lujack. The Fighting Irish were back last week, undefeated in eight games and the nation's No. 1-ranked team, with a couple of brilliant sophomores in Jim Seymour and Terry Hanratty (TIME cover,'Oct. 28), a defensive "front...
There are a few lines of fine print on the back of Harvard football tickets which, if anyone took them seriously, would put an end to one of the biggest booms in Boston's economic history: ticket scalping...