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...easiest way to understand them is to dismiss them as monsters. If writing off a whole nation makes you uncomfortable, you can posit a totalitarian state that shredded a people to an atomized mass and transformed each man into a monster. But the facts are less convenient. Most Germans lived close to normal lives. The world turned upside down, but most Germans remained standing...
Urgent Questions. Last week the army of South Viet Nam suffered its worst debacle of the five-week-old Communist offensive, and North Viet Nam's Defense Minister and chief military tactician, General Vo Nguyen Giap, gained his easiest victory of the long war. The 8,000-man ARVN 3rd Division, assigned to the defense of the northernmost provincial capital, Quang Tri, was known to be poorly trained and questionably led. But no one had expected the 3rd to give up as quickly as it did. Pounded by five days of shelling by Giap's troops and abandoned...
...Humphrey as the only way of knocking Wallace out. The money is sure to come a little more easily now. Humphrey called Beverly Hills Attorney Gene Wyman after the Florida vote and asked him to raise $50,000. Wyman did it in a day, and said it was the easiest $50,000 he had ever raised...
Economically, the easiest way to bring meat prices down would be to import more inexpensive meat. Politically, though, that course is barred by two sets of quotas: mandatory quotas provided by a law passed in 1964, and "voluntary" quotas added in 1968 to avoid triggering the mandatory quotas. The voluntary quotas are reviewed yearly, and two years ago they were relaxed slightly in order to slow an earlier rise in meat prices. Agriculture Department officials conducting this year's review, however, make it clear that any further relaxation in this presidential election year will have to be decided...
Harvard coach Bill Cleary doesn't want to think about the showdown with B.U. Monday night until after the Penn game. "We've beaten these guys twice now, and it's the easiest thing in the world to get overconfident and start looking at the games ahead. But Penn has improved since we played them in December, and they have a bunch of really good forwards," he said...