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...killed. For those who returned, the physical and emotional toll was drastically increased by the unpopularity of the war and America's unresolved guilt about its role. "Get that in Viet Nam?" a fellow student asked Veteran Frederick Downs as he walked across a college campus with a hook where his left hand should have been. When Downs nodded, the student snarled: "Serves you right." Says Michael Murray of Lewisboro, N.Y.: "They were down on us when they should have been down on the people who sent us there...
Late in the first round. Doti caught Crowe with a looping left hook, but he could not put the blond to the canvas. Crowe returned the favor by staggering Doti with a straight left, but he too, could not finish the task...
...evening's only knock-out came in the 139-1b. class, when New York's Bobby Francis landed a right and left combination on Felix (Perez) Almonte's gut, then connected on a crushing roundhouse left hook to floor the Bostonian. The referee stopped the bout with 15 seconds left in the first round...
...main burden [in getting the treaty's terms fulfilled] will once again fall on the President. He will be forced to hammer out compromises on these serious problems, and that will take up an enormous amount of his time. But Sadat cannot afford to let Carter off the hook because the American's presence in the talks may be the only way to consistently get the Israelis to heed the urgency of the Palestinian problem." This view is seconded by Noyes, who says, "What Carter has got to do is to put some teeth into the next proceedings...
...well to remember that this comes from a character who does not even vote. In addition, pretense to imaginative fiction is frequently dropped for ad hominem attacks on real people: Irving Kristol, Sidney Hook and Henry Kissinger, for example, are branded as men "of limited mentality and unconvincing motive...