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...Cornell crept into Cambridge Friday, stopping to better last year's 8-1 loss to Harvard. This time they got sapped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Netmen Overwhelm Cornell and Army Squads | 5/10/1965 | See Source »

Down from the smoky plateaus above the South China Sea crept column after column of refugees, carrying with them their tools, their pigs and the elders of their tribes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Defeat in the Highlands | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

...Very Bad." Four miles across the rolling plateau, another Viet Cong unit of six to ten men crept toward a compound at II Corps headquarters, where 180 U.S. advisers lived. Slipping past the outer defense perimeter manned by Vietnamese guards, they cut their way through an apron of barbed wire, crawled on their bellies toward the compound gate. Just as they reached it, a U.S. sentry, SP5 Jesse Pyle of Marina, Calif., spotted them and opened fire, killing one guerrilla. The noise roused the sleeping Americans, saved many from certain death had the Viet Cong slipped inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: A Look Down That Long Road | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

...along Pennsylvania Avenue, the hawkers with buttons and banners and balloons, the concessionaires with hot dogs and soda pop and hot coffee, shuffled into position. Scores of loudspeakers crackled with numbers like We're in the Money and Hello Lyndon. Reporters, photographers and the umbilical-twined television crews crept into their high blinds. Security guards, more than 5,000 of them, roamed through the area. Agents eyed windows to make sure they were shut in accordance with instructions is sued days before. From rooftops, from dark corners, behind Corinthian columns, Secret Service men with guns and electronic gadgetry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Inauguration: The Man Who Had the Best Time | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

Three engine companies, two hook-and-ladder trucks, one rescue squad, and a deputy chief of the Cambridge Fire Department rallied to save Quincy House from major damage yesterday evening after flames crept through a three-cushion couch in a sixth-story room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conflagration Sweeps Quincy House Couch | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

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