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...Tulsa traffic cop called it the biggest traffic jam since Dick Nixon's 1960 campaign visit. Close to 25,000 people -in 10,000 cars-turned out when Evangelist Billy Graham, 48, came to town to help fellow evangelist and millionaire, Oral Roberts, 49, dedicate his new Oral Roberts University, whose philosophy of education is "to develop the mind, the body-and the soul." Set on a 450-acre campus in suburban Tulsa, the modernistic school already has an enrollment of 546 students, mostly children of Oral Roberts' "Pentecostal Holiness" followers. And Gra ham predicted a vast spread...
...Lawrence (of Arabia) lost his mythological status because of the "cringing, obsequious" way he called Augustus John "Master." Besides, after he bragged to the children that he lived on a daily handful of raisins, Lawrence's icebox was discovered to be stuffed with chicken, meat, butter and jam...
...that McNamara's flexible response strategy would by its very speed alone slash the duration of conflicts by half, cut casualties to the U.S. and its allies and vastly reduce the amount of friendly territory that would have to be recaptured. Those considerations alone should ultimately clear the jam in LOGLAND...
...assault rifle that is more rugged and dependable than the Americans' skittish M-16 rifle. The AK47, now widely used by Viet Cong troops, fires a 30-round clip compared with the M-16's 20-rounder, is light and quick-loading and has fewer parts to jam. It is so efficient that some individual U.S. soldiers have taken captured AK-47s for their own use in battle, relying on captured arms caches to keep themselves in ammunition. The Viet Cong boast two other 7.62-mm. sharpshooter rifles-one a sniper's weapon and the other...
BLACK COMEDY. British Playwright Peter Shaffer looses eight characters on a stage that is supposed to be in total darkness. Director John Dexter manipulates them in a fracturingly funny people jam, with Michael Crawford, Geraldine Page and Lynn Redgrave leading the acrobatics...