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...Harvard College Prizes for this year have been awarded to Neil Jacobs '73, the Charles Joseph Bonaparte Scholarship: Geza Tatrallay '72, the Francis H. Burr Scholarship: Richard K. Hausler '72, the Paul Revere Frothingham Scholarship: Jerry LeClaire '72, the Palfrey Exhibition Award: Stephen Saletan '71, the Joseph Garrison Parker Prize: Roger Ferguson '73, Richard Perkins Parker Scholarship: Greg Rosenbaum '74, the Wendell Phillips Memorial Scholarship: Allen Curtis Greer '72, the Endicott Peabody Saltonstall Prize: and Alan Quasha '72 and Steven Burbank 21, the Newbold Rhinelander Landon Memorial Scholarship for a Junior or Senior...
...Route 13, which runs between Saigon and An Loc. He would set out from the capital in the morning by car to cover the progress of the South Vietnamese 21 st Division as it fought its way with agonizing slowness toward An Loc and the relief of the garrison encircled there...
During the recent North Vietnamese advance on Kontum, two American Army advisers were ordered to pull out of nearby Fire Base 5, even though it had not been directly attacked. They simply left behind the base's garrison of 130 Montagnard tribesmen, who have long been among the hardiest and most determined troops on the allied side...
...rate of one round every eight seconds. The U.S. Air Force responded in kind by laying on 21 strikes by B-52s, which dropped nearly 2,000 tons of bombs on the city's perimeter. Despite several ground assaults, An Loc's tenacious 6,000-man garrison was still in control of most of the city at week...
...North Vietnamese; the losses included a string of seven artillery positions on aptly named Rocket Ridge, which looks down on Kontum 25 miles away. None of the terror-stricken ARVN units put up much of a struggle, but few faded as ignobly as the 1,200-man garrison at Tan Canh, the forward headquarters of the troubled 22nd. As one of the U.S. advisers who survived the debacle told TIME'S David DeVoss: "The only Vietnamization that was successful at Tan Canh was North Vietnamization...