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...Chunk of Junk. As three battalions of South Vietnamese infantry pushed toward Viet An, an outpost 31 miles south of Danang, they passed a sign erected by the Communist Viet Cong. It read: "A 250,000-man French expeditionary corps came this way and was destroyed. Don't let it happen to you." They didn't. Though wave upon wave of U.S. fighter-bombers swept in before the attack with bombs and rockets, the weather turned bad for air support when the assault actually began. By midday, the attack force had reached the Viet Cong's main...
...simple expedient of picking top poets and giving them a useful chunk of cash, the Bollingen Prize in Poetry has established itself in the relatively short span of 16 years as probably the most highly regarded of U.S. literary awards. Since 1948, when a distinguished jury stirred a furor by awarding the initial prize to Ezra Pound,* the list of Bollingen winners has amounted to a virtual roll call of U.S. poetic merit. Among them: Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, W. H. Auden, Conrad Aiken, William Carlos Williams, Theodore Roethke. After the 1962 award to Robert Frost, the frequency...
...fewer than two Presidents, three Prime Ministers, three Deputy Prime Ministers and 83 Foreign Ministers. One by one, in speeches as much for the home folks as for the Assembly, they poured out their national hopes and fears, grievances and ambitions. The Philippines laid claim to a large chunk of Malaysia; Argentina demanded that the British give back the Falkland Islands; and Ireland, thumbing its nose at Britain, said the U.N. was "our best hope for the reunification of the Irish nation...
...Vellucci believes that half the fun of Christmas is giving, and so in return for part of the Yard, he proposes that the City present the University with a chunk of the Bennett St. MBTA yards...
...acquire a chunk of the Yard--a chunk that would probably include Straus and Lehman Halls and possibly the office of President Pusey in Massachusetts Hall--Vellucci suggests use of urban renewal laws...