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...Crimson scored its last goal halfway through the period, when Beckett fired a perfect pass some 30 feet straight down the rink to Dwinnell, who had enough of a jump on the defense to get off the scoring shot...
...Halfway around the world, midway between the red mud of Vientiane and the white marble of Washington, in an ugly mustard-colored building squatting above the U.S. Naval Station at Pearl Harbor, the Laotian skirmishes became new red dots on a vast, well-dotted map of the Pacific frontier. In a windowless basement room that once served as a hospital morgue, Admiral Harry Donald Felt, U.S. Commander in Chief Pacific (CINCPAC), met with his staff for their briefing. Officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines mulled over the latest intelligence reports. Then the little man with the four...
...Elvis' complaint: "Honey, you lied when you said you loved me." Not at all, bleats Songstress Thelma Carpenter, with the air of a forgiving wife: "Deep in your heart you know who lied." Songstress Jo Ann Perry is ready to meet Elvis halfway ("Elvis, darling, come back to me/ I swear faithfully/ The curtain will never come down"), but she tries to shift the blame for her defection to a "bad actor" who had "oh, such a good line...
Kahn is only halfway optimistic about even the shorter-term prospects. He is convinced that with clear, realistic thinking about national defense and substantial increases in defense spending, the U.S. can deter nuclear war in the 19605, or survive and recuperate if deterrence fails. But he is far from convinced that the required expenditures of thought and money will be forthcoming. "The capacity of Western governments and peoples to indulge in wishful thinking about military problems," he says, "is almost unlimited...
...Latin Quarter-no, not with a tenfoot pole, for sheer expensive tawdriness. Unlike the Copacabana, which concentrates on headliners (Joey Bishop, Sammy Davis Jr.) and surrounds them with half a dozen pretty chorines and vegetation by Goodyear, the Latin Quarter spends its budget on quantity, on big casts, on halfway talents and halfway nudes. A fanfare brings out the girls-girls dressed in balloons, girls dressed in sequins, girls in high heels clicking along the stage rim, nearly stepping on the ring-siders' elbows. After the updated burlesque comedians, the rubber-legged clown, the croaky grand-opera sextet...