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...enemy came across the paddies in waves like a herd of turtles." The battle raged for five hours. While the Marines on the ground fought at times hand to hand, F-4 Phantoms dropped napalm on the attackers. When the North Vietnamese finally broke off the battle and crept across the DMZ into the darkness, they left 140 dead behind. The Marines took 34 killed and 185 wounded...
...tiny discord crept in: the competition from cheap Japanese pianos is being felt; but their grand pianos sell in the U.S. for three-fourths, not "onefourth the price of domestic models...
Lately, an ominous note has crept into the competition. In the past, the fight was for larger circulation gains; now much of the struggle is just to keep from losing readers. Looming is the sort of crisis that has overtaken almost every other U.S. city and reduced the number of dailies to one in the morning and one in the afternoon...
...increased $3.9 billion (adjusted for price inflation) during the second quarter. The nation's economy thus grew at a true annual rate of 21% over the last three months, a striking improvement over the troubled first quarter. Other economic indicators buttressed the new buoyant feeling. June housing starts crept up 0.3% from May's rate of 1.3 million units a year; new durable-goods orders in June stayed well above their depressed levels of early...
After months of anxiety the telegram from Harvard must have been a great relief. Ironically, that same day, the very day he learned that his papers would be preserved and protected, Trotsky was assassinated. A man calling himself Frank Jacson, who had connived his way into Trotsky's confidence, crept up behind him while he was at work in his study, and crushed his skull with...