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Though Viet Nam does not loom large as an election issue in November, the Republicans would dearly like to make it one. Toward that end, the House Republican Conference last week issued a 37-page indictment of Lyndon Johnson's conduct of the war. In it, the Republicans did their agile best to sail with the doves and swoop with the hawks...
...height of Ramses II's portraits at Abu Simbel and is bigger than the biggest Buddha, a 175-ft.-high statue in Afghanistan. Lee's sabre thrusts 50 ft., and his battle charger, Traveller, travels 141 ft. from nose to tail. When finished, the sculpture will loom 190 ft. by 305 ft., soaring higher than a 30-story building...
...open-team competition Sunday will also consist of two sessions. A four-man Harvard squad will be defending its title, but Columbia and the University of Texas loom as strong challengers...
...every logical standard, inflation should be strong tonic for the stock market. But the market is not logical, and ever since inflation began to loom large, it has retreated in fright. The Dow-Jones industrial average has fallen almost 70 points since early February, and last week, in a frenzy of deep plunges and brief rallies, it lost another four points to close at 927.95. Wall Street is worried that the fight on inflation and the war in Viet Nam may oblige the Government to take harsh steps that will pinch prosperity. That specifically includes the likelihood of higher taxes...
Henry David Thoreau has been buried in Concord, Mass. for a century. The stubborn, contradictory spirit laid to rest there did not loom large over his own times. He was considered an eccentric loafer, a consecrated crank with queer ideas. Since then Thoreau's ideas have had their seasons. In this excellent biography by a Thoreau scholar who has written and edited 18 earlier books on his chosen subject, Walter Harding argues that Thoreau's spirit is more pervasive now than ever before...