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...more arrogantly intransigent than ever. North Viet Nam's government last week made a special point of deriding as "fabricated legend" the breathless U.S. press reports of last month that Hanoi had offered to begin peace talks in late 1964. The Communists' fanatical belief that they will conquer South Viet Nam found expression in the weirdly convoluted Newspeak used by the North Vietnamese regime to defend its aggression: "The whole world, including the American people, now are stirringly supporting the patriotic struggle of the South Vietnamese people. Why, then, have the people in North Viet...
...Indians. Spain's comeuppance was just as brutal; in 15 short years under leaders like Simón Bolivar, José de San Martin and Bernardo O'Higgins, the American colonies threw off Spanish dominance and established their independence. Unlike Britain, Spain found no new worlds to conquer. The final humiliating ejection from Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines by the U.S. in 1898 sank Spain into doldrums of defeatism and economic stagnation that lasted for a generation...
...Bible." His objections to segregation are firmly religious. "We need to abolish racial discrimination in our country and our churches not because of a clause in the Constitution or because of the Communist challenge, nor yet because we need the votes of the watching world. We need to conquer race prejudice because it is a sin against almighty God and a rejection of the precious blood of Jesus Christ, his only begotten...
...lick formidable mountains invariably enjoys as unsatisfactory a love life as a lady harp player." The obverse of that notion is that sex itself is the real, perhaps the last great adventure, the "last frontier" that permits modern man, hag-ridden by civilization, to explore, to dare and to conquer...
Eleventh place in the freshman contest was good enough to conquer the Brown and Providence freshman squads. Both teams had defeated Harvard in freshman meets earlier this year...