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...action against the Viet Cong guerrillas, but now faced "a real war waged by an enemy who attacks us with regular units fully and heavily equipped." The 150,000-man South Viet Nam army is spread so thin that in recent battles it has been outnumbered by the Communist foe...
Colgate, Harvard's next foe (in the Stadium Saturday), looked reasonably impressive in its 13-0 victory over Bucknell Saturday. The Red Raiders held their opponents to a mere 54 yards. This fact is bloated in importance by a quick look at Bucknell's undefeated performances in its first two games: 12-6 and 8-7 wins over Gettysburg and Temple...
...President Pusey testified several times in Washington as part of a massive effort on the part of the enlightened schools to prod Congress into repealing the disclaimer affidavit provision. Last summer was supposed to be the climax of the great crusade, but nothing happened. President Kennedy, once a strong foe of the affidavit, evidently had more pressing concerns on his mind and had forgotten. Congress never gave the matter a second thought as it renewed the entire NDEA package for two years. And it is sheer wishful thinking to hope that something will happen next time. For the issues that...
...stumbled toward the scene of the ambush, tracers from automatic rifles laced the darkness, and the finger snap of small-arms fire was punctuated by the sledging blow of mortar explosions. Even under the wavering light of flare shells it was impossible to tell friend from foe. There was a movement, a silhouette running along the road. Was it a Viet Cong guerrilla or a Vietnamese Ranger? Even as the man passed it was impossible to tell...
...more sharply caught than Jamaican Premier Norman Manley, 68, who had staked his reputation on federation. He underestimated the strength of his old foe, Sir Alexander Bustamante, leader of Jamaica's Labor Party, which sees federation as a hindrance rather than a help to Jamaican aspirations. At 78, Busta sometimes rambles a bit, dreamily reliving his days of street-level anticolonialism. But his bright young organizers quickly saw that Manley's more-stability, more-investment arguments aimed at the middle class produced less vote power than songs, rhythm and sheer noise aimed at the 93% of Jamaicans...