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...Communists blasted back with machine guns and 57-mm recoilless rifles. Saigon soon concluded that it had a veteran Viet Cong battalion at bay, ordered in the largest number of Vietnamese troops to be used in a single battle in the long war to try to encircle and crush the Reds...
Harvard's freshmen, convincing winners in every game this year, figure to crush Exeter in a 2 p.m. road game...
...jolly goings on. Even President Sukarno, puffy-cheeked and perspiring, was forced onto the defensive. Warning against the danger of Indonesia's suddenly becoming pro-Western (and anti-Sukarno), he pursued one of his own quaint theories to its illogical conclusion: "If they didn't try to crush us, the Western powers wouldn't be nekolim" (a Sukarno acronym for neocolonialist imperialism...
...cars in Hollywood, lend them to studios for a year in return for a guarantee that they will be used in movies and TV shows. A new Lincoln was squeezed into a tiny cube by a giant press in the James Bond movie Goldfinger; the villain who arranged the crush-out to get rid of a rival carted off the metal remains in, of all things, a Ford "Ranchero" pickup truck! Chrysler has signed agreements with no less than 17 TV shows to use its cars, among them Peyton Place, Dr. Kildare, the Beverly Hillbillies and The Fugitive. Napoleon Solo...
Today, the slump is being dramatically reversed. The steel industry has devised a way to drill the once useless taconite with 4,300° jet flames. Machines then crush the ore, magnetize it and roll it into pea-sized pellets that are then baked to produce a product that is richer per ton than natural ore. So important is this development that Governor Karl F. Rolvaag's Democratic-Farm-Labor Party last year finally persuaded Minnesota voters to approve a "taconite amendment" to the state constitution that gives mining companies, traditionally fair game for steep taxes, an assessment...