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Thus, unless the new buildup saves the day, the U.S. is quite possibly heading for a showdown with the Communists in Asia over Viet Nam. Already Viet Nam is an important issue in what promises to be a hammer-and-tongs U.S. presidential campaign. The words of Barry Goldwater at San Francisco will be repeated and repeated by the G.O.P.: "Yesterday it was Korea; tonight it is Viet Nam. And yet the President . . . refuses to say. refuses to say, mind you, whether or not the objective over there is victory . . ." Plagued by the civil rights and law-and-order crises...
...Chinese were quick to retaliate. Abetted by members of the Triad Society, an illegal but ill-contained gang of Chinese extortionists, pimps, gunmen and gamblers, they took advantage of a break in the hastily imposed curfew to murder a few Malays. One had his head shattered by a hammer, another was scalped by the ragged edge of a broken bottle, and an Indian photographer was found with a cargo hook in his forehead. Before the week was out, 21 Chinese and Malays were dead, 454 injured, and the handsome, prosperous city itself had temporarily become a ghost town. Armored cars...
Competing at Eugene will be captain-elect Art Croasdale in the shot and hammer, junior John Bakkensen in the discus, sophomores Chris Pardee in the high jump and Tony Lynch in the 400 meter hurdles, senior Chris Ohiri in the triple jump, and juniors John Ogden in the 800 meter run and Aggrey Awori in the high hurdles...
...three could do it. Awori, in particular, has suddenly begun to click after a fitful season. He ran a smooth :14.3 race in the IC4A's and could possibly place if he could reach :14.0, a time he ran last year. Croasdale failed to place in the hammer in the IC4A's, but a throw in the middle 180's might give the Crimson some points...
...Crimson entries pulls through, the team is very likely to surpass Harvard's previous high score in the meet, which came in 1961 here in Cambridge. If not, the scoring will still be better distributed, for Crimson points in past NCAA's have been remarkably concentrated in the hammer throw, a traditional Crimson speciality...