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...Land. It fell to the American fighting man to redeem Johnson's pledge. Plunged abruptly into a punishing environment, pitted against a foe whose murderously effective tactics had been perfected over two decades, the G.I. faced the strangest...
...paper tiger, Communist China had long proclaimed Americans incapable of combat under such conditions-while prudently allowing North Viet Nam to fight its "war of liberation." The Americans turned out to be tigers, all right-live ones. With courage and a cool professionalism that surprised friend and foe, U.S. troops stood fast and firm in South Viet Nam. In the waning months of 1965, they helped finally to stem the tide that had run so long with the Reds...
That is the way it mostly went last week in the Senate caucus room, where the Federal Reserve Board's old foe, Texas Congressman Wright Patman, had summoned Board Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr., four more of the seven board members and four other witnesses to four days of hearings about the Federal Reserve's discount-rate rise. The hearings changed no one's mind or position one iota, but they produced some clarification of the events that led up to the rate rise and considerably heightened speculation about President Johnson's choice to replace Vice...
...Joint Council 16, who boldly turned against Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa in 1962, subsequently blocked him from dipping further into union funds for personal legal expenses (currently, appeals of jury tampering, mail fraud and conspiracy convictions), and last year gave the screw a final turn by supporting Arch Hoffa Foe Robert Kennedy for Senator; of a heart attack; in The Bronx...
Harvard will have to win at least 12 of 27 bouts to be regarded as a serious contender for the Ivy title. C.C.N.Y. is strong this year, though still not in the same class with national champion Columbia. The Lions are Harvard's first Ivy League foe...