Word: call
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Another visiting Asian statesman, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, called for U.S. "patience, perseverance and prudence" in an effort that is designed, "in a world full of bears and dragons," to help the nations of Southeast Asia maintain their independence. If the U.S. were to withdraw too hastily from Viet Nam, he warned, internal subversion with outside support would quickly run Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore through the Communist "mincing machine." The President assured Lee that the U.S. "has the resolution and the restraint to see the struggle through." He added: "You have a phrase in your part...
...casualties can ever be considered a bargain, the snipers provide the biggest bargain of the war: the cartridges they use cost only 13?. Appropriately enough, they thus call themselves "the 13? killers." In the past eight months, the 90-odd snipers of the 1st Marine Division have recorded over 450 confirmed kills, against four dead of their own-an astonishing kill ratio of better than...
Summoned from her villa in Switzerland by a phone call from the Point Pleasant, N.J., chief of police, Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 42, returned to the U.S. to the bedside of her mother, Agnes Boulton O'Neill Kaufman, 76, who had been admitted to a hospital suffering from malnutrition. It was Oona's first trip home since she renounced her citizenship 15 years ago, after Charlie ran into visa trouble with the Attorney General on "moral" grounds. Denounced and disinherited by her late father, Playwright Eugene O'Neill, for marrying the 54-year-old Chaplin when...
...Bulwark. All that speed leads Notre Dame's Coach Ara Parseghian to call U.S.C. "undoubtedly the fastest college team I have ever seen." And certainly one of the most complete. There is All-America Tackle Ron Yary, the 6-ft. 6-in., 245-lb. bruiser who bulwarks the offensive line, and Linebacker Adrian Young, who intercepted four Notre Dame passes. And there is Quarterback Steve Sogge, a top pro baseball prospect (he batted 400 for the U.S. team that won at last summer's Pan American Games), who could also fling a football...
...group--which chose to call itself simply "The Organization"--endorsed resolutions demanding that the Harvard Administration keep the Dow Chemical Company, the Central Intelligence Agency, or the U.S. Military from recruiting on the University campus, and that bursar's cards be returned without disciplinary action...