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Just what were the deeds that have made Nguyen Van Be such a hero? As the Communists tell it, he was crossing a canal in the upper delta one day last May in a sampan, together with eleven Viet Cong companions and a heavy load of ammunition, when the sampan was attacked by a squadron of U.S. and South Vietnamese amphibious armored carriers. Nguyen Van Be fought off the attackers for 30 minutes with his rifle and was taken prisoner, "covered with mud and blood," only when his ammunition was gone and his companions were all dead. Pretending cooperation with...
...mother, a concert pianist under her maiden name, Iris Greep, went out and bought the first one she saw, a three-quarter length box that served until Jacqueline was six and began taking lessons at the London Cello School. She progressed so brilliantly that at the age of eleven she won the Suggia International Cello Award. After seven years of tutoring under London Cellist William Pleeth, she worked for five months in Moscow with Mstislav Rostropovich...
Most of the couples counseled at Guy's Hospital have heeded the geneticists' advice. Only a few in the poor-risk group have had more children. For them, the gloomy predictions were borne out, with severe defects in two cases out of eleven. But of 81 children born to couples in the good-risk group, only one inherited a major defect. That is a better showing than even "normal" couples can expect...
...Jersey last week, two women teachers spent seven hours in a county workhouse; a male teacher and a national representative of the American Federation of Teachers were handcuffed together, mugged and jailed. They were among eleven educators found guilty of contempt of court for leading a two-week teachers' strike in Woodbridge Township. They thereby acquired the dubious distinction of becoming the first school workers ever to serve time as a result of a teachers' strike...
Bethell talks like a publications pro and he is. He came to the Alumni Bulletin this fall after eleven years at McGraw Hill where he was senior editor of National Petroleum News. The bi-weekly Bulletin is virtually a one-man show, a haven for someone like Bethell who exults in "running a magazine the way I want...