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Another former Army captain, Edward Miles, 30, also lost both legs in fighting near Tay Ninh in 1968, as well as one eye and partial use of his right arm. He does not share Clack's views. "It really is going down the drain," he said. "This week we can really see what a farce that whole thing was. It bothers me to face it." Supposing he could go back to fight in Viet Nam? "If I could go back now," he answered, "I'd fight with the North Vietnamese. They are the ones who are doing...
...University is not totally out of the power scene; Hale Champion, financial vice president, is not about to let the benefits of the complex go down the drain, benefits that include a new Kennedy Institute building, 2.2 acres of property and a $10--million Institute of Politics endowment...
...going to allow Western Europe and Japan to go down the drain to support Israel?" Morgenthau wonders. Other observers find a distinct decline in what one study calls "the new and hard-won status of American Jewry?which by the early '60s had virtually reached a point
...other potential parties to the suit (TIME. June 10). That tough interpretation put a stop to such far-reaching actions as one brought on behalf of "all U.S. citizens." Sensible as that seemed, critics were quick to point out that many legitimate consumer suits would also go down the drain-as Sandra Lee Cartt has just found out. Car Owner Cartt, an elementary school teacher in San Fernando. Calif, had wondered about Standard Oil of California's claims that its F-310 gasoline reduced air pollution. When she tested the gas. she found that pollution actually increased. Later...
...decade late: she wanted to write about the human problems of sex in the 1960s, but her doctor-husband insisted that they establish professional credentials by writing up their lab experiments first. Now, at last, she says, "I hope the whole mechanical myth will go down the drain-I'm tired...