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Last week U.S. troops tried the same sort of tactics-with far different equipment. As ground fighting flared up after a two-week lull, the Navy, Army and Air Force teamed with South Vietnamese regulars and staged a river assault reminiscent of Civil War engagements on the Lower Mississippi. They steamed off to battle in a "river assault flotilla" consisting of two converted World War II armored troop carriers and one "Monitor" gunboat that can slither along like water moccasins in shallow inlets and stand up to direct hits from recoilless rifles...
Republican Fanning, who rose from copy boy to managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle before moving to a series of top editorial posts with Field Enterprises in 1955, plans to spruce up the News's front page and to expand its coverage of the "Lower 48" when he takes over in September. Since its founding in 1946, the paper has been politically independent-and adventurous enough to have become embroiled in seven libel suits. By keeping it that way, Fanning hopes to catch up some day with Anchorage's afternoon Times, whose circulation of 22,000 makes...
...second weapon is money. Croesus-rich Kuwait alone has nearly $3 billion deposited in British banks, figures that by withdrawing that much, it could topple the pound sterling. Even if the Kuwaitis switched their accounts to Swiss banks (at lower interest rates), the Swiss would simply deposit most of the money in London's City, which alone is equipped to handle the Arab world's huge deposits...
...most Yale presidents, he does not want to keep the post until retirement age. "To stay ten years-give or take half of that-would be bad for the institution and bad for me," he says. He does not discuss his political aims, but few expect him to aim lower than a Senate seat. In mocking reference to both his ambitions and his stylish mode of dress -mod-striped shirts handmade in Hong Kong, J. Press suits, occasionally even a black opera cape-Yale wits have dubbed him "Kingwad Tweed," claim that he wants to be "the first man appointed...
...second year curriculum, petitioned their dean for the privilege of studying the course material independently. Dean Ebert granted the petition, though the number of actual participants dropped from twenty-five to five. Those five still feel that the experiment was a personal success, although they may have scored lower on the minutely detailed final exams than did the bulk of their class...