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...John's. fired up by coach Lon Carnesecca added quickly to its three-point halftime lead on long set shots against the Crimson zone by guard Richie Lyons and Jim Smyth. Harvard couldn't narrow the gap to less than seven, and a last minute desperation 40-foot set shot by Crimson reserve Jeff Brogan completed the scoring...
...site. In temperatures that rose to well over 100° F. in the heavy, stale air trapped among the hills, Alpha Company experienced its first violent contact with the enemy, suffering three dead and two wounded in a fierce firefight at the foot of a low hill called Nui Lon. The North Vietnamese left 20 bodies. There were more contacts during the next two days, then an evening barrage of 82-mm. fire, followed by a predawn fusillade of small-arm fire. After five days of fighting, Alpha Company's mud-caked survivors were exhausted, thirsty, hungry-and scared...
...Great Britain, which began life as an 18th century reform movement within Anglicanism, should reunite with the Church of Eng land, which had injudiciously let the reformers go in the first place. Last week the Methodist Conference in Birmingham and the Anglican Convocations of Canterbury and York, meeting in Lon don, voted on the first stage of a two-step plan for union that the two churches had been working on for 13 years...
...fields around Kallia, as sprinklers shoot jets of fresh water high in the air. Massey-Ferguson cultivators dig furrows, and Kallia's first crop of yellow corn is sprouting. One acre has been set aside for a hydroponic plot. Nutrients and chemicals from a 60,000-gal-lon fiber-glass reservoir wash long rows of coal-black tuff, a cinderlike debris of volcanic lava brought from the Golan Heights. In the tuff are melon and tomato seeds that may, thanks to the hydroponic forced feeding, yield up to ten times a normal crop. All told, the Israeli government...
...additions to and omissions from his four-hour keynote speech. He praised, of all people, Pope Paul VI, say ing that he entirely agreed with the Pope's view that too much of the West's economy was based on profit motives rather than social obligation. And Lon go, in the course of 20,000 words, never once "invoked the name of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin...