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...evacuation of Americans and Vietnamese. From the sanctuary of the Continental Palace Hotel, Western correspondents and cameramen listened to an account of the attack on the UHF frequency used by the U.S. mission: "The ices [International Commission for Control and Supervision] compound is burning . . . The back end of the gymnasium's been hit . . . My God, control, we've got two Marine K.I.A.s [killed in action]." The response was terse: "Do you know where the bodies are?" Doctors were called for; firefighting equipment was requested and then told to stay away because of the shelling. A large secondary explosion was reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: The End of a Thirty Years' War | 5/12/1975 | See Source »

...they are not merely an ocular gymnasium. There is a lyrical side to Ri ley's work. The color, in particular, is taxingly subtle. It does not woo the eye, but it does present an unexpectedly wide range of situations, from a slow, impalpable, pearly shimmer of greens and grays to the sharp, exhilarating flicker and reversal of green against red against blue in such paintings as Paean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Making Waves | 5/12/1975 | See Source »

...crew was selected and put on contract by the CIA. The 40 men on the mining staff obviously knew the ship's secret mission; the others probably did not. All refused to talk to outsiders about the ship, except to say that it had a gymnasium and the food was good. On Nov. 4, 1972, the Glomar Explorer was launched and left shortly thereafter on its shakedown cruise. According to one account, it tested its detection equipment and some of its recovery systems at the site of the 1968 accidental explosion of the U.S. nuclear-powered submarine Scorpion, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: The Great Submarine Snatch | 3/31/1975 | See Source »

Stevens, Handy and Susanna DeSola, Sally Blair and Emmy Levin with all be competing in the National Collegiate championships to be held in Hemenway gymnasium this weekend. The 6-7 Radcliffe squad has one dual meet remaining, against Andover tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Redeem Lost Weekend | 2/25/1975 | See Source »

Jack Barnaby's Crimson squash team, decimated recently by illness and injury, hosts Yale this afternoon in Hemenway gymnasium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Squads Have It Easy Today | 2/25/1975 | See Source »

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