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Bumper-to-Bumper. The upsurge of trouble in Laos came as the scarred battlefields of South Viet Nam fell relatively silent after two weeks of the fiercest fighting of the war in which a record 5,084 Communist soldiers were killed. Said U.S. Commander General Wil liam C. Westmoreland: "The Communists seem to have run temporarily out of steam." But probably not for long. Watching the North Vietnamese buildup across the border, Westmoreland expects a major enemy attack at Khe Sanh either shortly before or after the seven-day lunar new year celebration of Tet that starts...
...what had to be the worst 60 min utes of his lustrous career, Unitas spent most of the afternoon running for his life from one of the fiercest defenses in pro football. Seven times the Ram defenders dropped him for losses; twice he was intercepted. At the gun, the high-scoring (28 points per game) Colts had 10 points v. 34 for the Rams, who thereby sewed up the N.F.L.'s Coastal Division championship and earned the right to play the Green Bay Packers for the Western Conference title...
...week's end the Republicans claimed to be holding their own, but their position was perilous. Even though it boasts Russian equipment-including a few MIG-19s-the Republican army is no match for the Royalists' mountain tribesmen, who are the fiercest warriors in Yemen. Nor can the Republicans expect help from Nasser, whose last troops left in the middle of last week's fighting. Although the Cairo newspaper Al Ahram charged that the CIA was behind the Royalists, the government made it plain that it considers the fighting essentially a "domestic Yemeni affair." Thus, after years...
...ended." Which was all I had to say. My mind for the moment stopped, and it was only weeks later, seeing a transcript of what I had said, that I realized I did not in fact know how Prospero began that soliloquy. Not fortune, nor pain, nor yet the fiercest will could have wrung it from me. Only the realization of a youth having passed summoned it forth, which is to say summoned a power that was there but was not being used...
...police to break up the crowds. After three hours calm returned, but not for long. Along the ghetto grapevine, the word was passed: "You ain't seen nothin' yet." By that evening, New Jersey's largest city (pop. 405,000) was caught up in the fiercest race riot since Watts...