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...unfashionable alliterations: on one occasion, Home had referred to Harold Wilson as "this slick salesman of synthetic science." Griffiths, however, proved himself a slick and energetic salesman of Conservatism. Drawing on his experience as a pig farmer, he spoke tirelessly about practical issues (agriculture, housing, jobs), got up at dawn to help the stableboys at Newmarket exercise their horses...
Harvard's best baseball team since the dawn of the twentieth century beat Yale 7-3 Saturday on Paul Del Rossi's seven-hitter...
Trapped. It was an ugly, bloody little war at that. One day last week, seeking to root the Red Wolves out of their mountain redoubts, 120 British paratroopers attacked the mud-walled town of El Naqiil at dawn with fixed bayonets. The rebels scampered up the slopes, dug in, and with deadly sniper fire pinned the paratroopers to the ground in shimmering heat. Twelve hours later, at dusk, the British finally broke out of the trap and routed the rebels, killing twelve. Two Britons died...
...visit to Moscow last year when she publicly denounced India's agreement to accept a Voice of America transmitter, aggravating a controversy that finally forced Nehru to renege on the deal. But Indira took a strong stand against the Red Chinese invasion and spent days, from dawn to dusk, in airplanes surveying the front...
Then, of course, there was the favorite: Aurele Vandendriessche, 31, a skinny, hook-nosed Belgian who once held the world record for 30,000 meters, and likes to train before dawn - running 30 miles or so through pine forests when "it's dark, and peaceful, and beautiful." Vandendriessche was the defending champion; in 1963 he did not even arrive in Boston until the night before the race, still breezed to an easy victory in a record 2 hrs. 28 min. 58 sec. This time he lounged confidently around his hotel room while competitors were inspecting the course and plotting...