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Brown and his men were so close to the enemy that one member of the patrol who was trying to snatch some sleep had to be awakened lest his soft snoring give them away. "As I hid in the grass, two Shakespeare quotations buzzed through my head," recalled Mannock, faithful to his Oxford education. "The first was 'Cowards die many times before their deaths.' The other, as the night dragged interminably, was the Dauphin sighing, 'Will it never...
...Real Pressure. The Treasury boss also asked Congress to lift its long-established 41% interest-rate ceiling on Government bonds of more than five years maturity lest there be "a sharp rise in short-term rates." Another upward pressure on interest rates is the U.S. balance-of-payments deficit; last week the Commerce Department reported that the deficit jumped 19% from the fourth quarter of 1966, to $539 million during this year's first quarter...
...their nights off, they crossed over regularly to watch the competition at work. Bruhn and Nureyev not only caught each other's performances, but also worked out in classes together and occasionally took off on the town. And lest anyone make too much of the rivalry between them and their companies, Nureyev spoke for everybody when he said: "We don't clash. We have different things...
...rejected six times before she was considered ready; she has been on 18 times since. After the talent is selected, Tonight staffers rough out a crib sheet for Carson, proposing possible lines of questioning and the guest's likely answers. Carson rarely talks to the guests beforehand, lest "they leave their fight in the gymnasium...
...republican regime of Abdullah Sallal. Two AID officials, Stephen Liapis, 33, and Harold Hartman, 36, have been jailed on trumped-up charges that they were caught attempting to blow up an ammunition dump with a bazooka. The U.S. has protested vigorously, but has hesitated to break relations lest it have to abandon Liapis and Hartman and give up its diplomatic listening posts in Yemen...