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...critics contend, an army, composed of volunteers would be a poor man's army. But there is no reason why the army should reflect the basic inequities of American society any less than other jobs or institutions. Already the rich are freed from ditch-digging, construction work, hard labor of any sort. Are we to correct this inequity by conscripting people into the ditches? Highways, after all, are as much of a national necessity as wars...
...lightweights wrestle first. That can have two effects: either they mentally relax because of 'last-ditch performances, or they feel a responsibility to start each match with quick victories. Harvard's lightweights go for the pins...
Plunging ahead, she was forced to stop two miles north of De Due when she reached a five-foot-wide ditch that had been hacked out of the highway by the Viet Cong. As soon as she climbed out of the car to take pictures, three Viet Cong took her captive. According to peasants who witnessed the proceedings, the V.C.s forced her to drive off the highway to the edge of a sugar-cane field. There they all got out; while Michele munched a piece of sugar cane, which she asked her captors to cut for her, the Viet Cong...
...segregated Ole Miss, shook the college to its foundations. Mississippians suddenly had to get used to the idea of integration at the "white folks school." national attention forced the University out of its comfortable regionalism. Political issues became paramount: white Mississippians had to choose between moderation and a last-ditch defense of the state's traditions...
...Zadar, Zagreb and Belgrade, the Yugoslav police picked up all five of the magazine's remaining editors and charged them with conspiracy and spreading propaganda hostile to the state. They may face an even harsher sentence than Mihajlov's; and their arrest suggests that his last-ditch appeal to the Yugoslav high court is a hopeless effort...