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...Viet Minh hovered on Laos' borders after the French debacle at Dienbienphu. With the French withdrawing financial support, the urgent necessity was to keep the 25,000-man Laotian army in the field. In a hastily drawn agreement, the U.S. committed itself to exchange dollars for Laotian kip at the rate of 35 kip...
Pole vaulters Kip Smith and Don Richards have both graduated, leaving a huge void which must be filled by sophomores Dick Williams, Barnes Keller, and Barrett Churchill. Keller has looked the best so far, which, at this point, is unfortunately damning with faint praise...
Defend America? One hot morning just 180 years ago, Britain's General Sir William Howe, having taken Brooklyn with "the largest expeditionary force Great Britain had ever assembled" (32,000 men, 200 ships), sent his redcoats across the East River to a landing at Kip's Bay (34th Street). Under the massed fire of 86 naval cannon, the Connecticut farm-boy defenders ran for their lives. General George Washington, taken by surprise, galloped down from his headquarters at the northern end of the island (now Coogan's Bluff, overlooking the Polo Grounds). "Take the wall," he shouted...
...Kip Smith and Don Richards tied Eli Walt McConnell in the pole vault at the low, for them, height of 12 feet, while Jack Murphy tied for second...
...field events, Jack Murphy and Jerry Fields will high jump, Kip Smith and Don Richards will vault, Cohen and possibly Warren Plath or Mayo will broad jump, and Pete Harpel will throw the hammer...