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...courtyard of New Delhi's vast President's House last week, an Indian army band stood smartly to attention. As the national anthem rang out in the crisp winter air, Indian Army Chief of Staff General Sam Hormuzji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw stepped forward to the presidential dais and saluted stiffly. Then India's President V.V. Giri ceremoniously handed Manekshaw an ornate silver-tipped baton. With that, the military commander who masterminded Pakistan's humiliating defeat in the 1971 Indo-Pakistan war became the first Indian field marshal in his country's history...
...Bond, conservatively clad in dark suit and tie, was the very picture of the black preppy. He walked casually to the podium exuding with every step the renowned "cool" that has long been his trademark. The cherubic Georgia peachy face elicited sighs from the women. His delivery was a crisp clear monotone, carefully measured and light on rhetoric. Here, I thought, was a no-nonsense radical black man who could speak his mind and get away with it because of obvious physical charisma and carefully nursed political style. Blacks could listen to him knowing that he was one of their...
...Yale stole the ball in their own territory and drove across the field with crisp short passes. Marchaj got by the Crimson defenders and knocked in a goal from live feet, lying the score 1-1 before halftime...
...position but is not very successful in its attempt to present the other side. There is a half-page on Colorado (for its Jewish community) but no separate entry on Israel's neighbor, Saudi Arabia. The encyclopedia gamely notes Gambler Arnold Rothstein and Gangster Benjamin ("Bugsy") Siegel with crisp, forthright entries, but there is no treatment of Jewish humor beyond Hebrew parody-because, say the editors, they could not find a suitable author...
Radcliffe's fatigue, resulting from a lack of practice dating back to two weeks before the game, detracted from the usually crisp execution of the 'Cliffe's skills which had corned it a 3-0-3 record before the Princeton test...