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...stringy, 6-ft. 7-in. forward who was the No. 1 college scorer at the University of Miami two years ago, Barry, 22, is the deadliest "gunner" to hit the N.B.A. since Oscar Robertson in 1960. Last season he averaged 25.7 points a game, was voted N.B.A. Rookie of the Year. Star rookies often suffer from "the sophomore jinx" during their second pro season, but Barry is bombarding the basket at a fantastic rate. Last week he poured in 40 points as the San Francisco Warriors beat the Baltimore Bullets 120-110. After 21 games, Rick was averaging 38.5 points...
...kill at Tay Ninh demonstrated, the arsenal of American weapons in Viet Nam is the deadliest ever developed for man-to-man combat. The U.S. infantryman in Viet Nam today shoulders six times the firepower of his Korean War counterpart; behind him stand rank upon rank of mobile mortars and howitzers that can be called in by air as quickly as he needs them. Overhead hover helicopters bristling with machine guns, rockets and automatic grenade launchers; above the "gunships" circle jet fighter-bombers armed with searing napalm, white phosphorous and bomblets that can unleash deadly patterns of tiny steel pellets...
...Costa e Silva will be elected this week and take office in March. But whether he can bring peace to the Brazilian family is another question. Opposition elements are already beginning to unite against any form of military rule, whether by Castello Branco or Costa e Silva. Even the deadliest of enemies are talking of joining forces in something called the Frente Ampla (Broad Front) to bring the soldiers down...
...side of the "good old days" in the early-20th century U.S. Why, one contributor asks, are workingmen rarely portrayed in any television dramas? "The deep thinkers who arrange things on the home screen," he wrote, "have somehow made the whole paycheck populace disappear. Automation at its deadliest couldn't possibly be more thorough...
...place of birth are apparently unrecorded. Dozens of family photographs portray L.B.J.'s sturdy forebears, from Father Sam, looking astonishingly like L.B.J. on a bad day, to Maternal Great-Grandfather George Washington Baines Sr., a fire-breathing Baptist preacher who was president of Baylor University and the deadliest shot in the county. His favorite hymn, Rebekah attests, was Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed...