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...Norm Shepard's forces. McCandlish has scarcely had a bad performance all season. Last Saturday he duelled Army's brilliant Barry DeBolt for ten innings and yielded only nine hits, before giving up a cheap run in the last frame. If McCandlish is at his best tomorrow, Harvard should climb a notch in the EIBL standings...
...capture a provincial town like Kontum or Quinhon, declare it the rebel capital, and thus win an important psychopolitical victory that could topple the Saigon regime. But if they fail (and clearly U.S. policy is determined to make them fail), then Dr. Quat's chances of surviving will climb another notch. And with him on that slippery ladder to governmental stability climbs the whole future of South Viet...
...year-old company. Last week Saab announced that its 1964 sales rose to $221 million, its earnings to more than $3.8 million, both new records. Auto sales, which account for about 60% of the company's revenues, increased to a record 43,011 units, are expected to climb to 50,000 this year. Saab is still producing and profiting from its Draken-35 jet fighters, the current mainstay of the Swedish air force, and the piston-engine Safir trainers that are used by Sweden and five foreign nations...
During this movement, students wrote criticism of the school administration and pasted them up on the walls around the school grounds. After a few days, every inch of open space in the school was covered over more than once, and people began to climb on ladders to paste up criticisms. The soccer field was draped with clothslines to supported the flood of messages. When the public address system announced the location of especially good suggestions, the students and teachers crowded around from all over the school. The administration officials spent hours going from poster to poster, taking notes...
Whittaker and Prather had nothing but praise for Neophyte Kennedy, but in the eternal spirit of internal Kennedy-family gamesmanship Brother Teddy was quick to point out that Bobby "is not the first Kennedy to climb a mountain. I climbed the Matterhorn, which is higher [14,780 ft.], and I didn't need the Royal Canadian Mounted Police." That was all right with Bobby. "I didn't really enjoy any part of it," he admitted frankly, "but I can understand why people like climbing. They are a special breed of men." Henceforth, he added, "I'm going...