Word: nonetheless
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...closer to one-third of that figure. That would leave North Viet Nam's Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap with considerable muscle for a new wave of attacks on the cities. U.S. casualties were a fraction of the Communist losses, but they were the war's heaviest nonetheless, totaling more than 1,350 dead and 6,800 wounded since the beginning of the Tet strikes...
Questioning, nonetheless, was still going on even after President Johnson ordered a retaliatory attack against North Viet Nam and announced shortly after 11:30 p.m. (Washington time) on Aug. 4 that the U.S. was officially sending men into battle for the first time since the Korean War. A few minutes later, 64 jets from Ticonderoga and Constitution blasted five targets in North Viet...
...Nonetheless, Wallace will continue his campaign to get on 49 states' presidential ballots (Ohio's requirements are too tough). He intends to keep barnstorming until the election with his 21-member campaign entourage in a chartered DC-6, meanwhile governing Alabama via a sophisticated telephone hookup that keeps him in constant communication with the state. Only his wife's illness could possibly slow him down. Last week when Lurleen Wallace underwent emergency cancer surgery for the third time in two years, George canceled all speaking engagements to join...
Since the St. Louis Archdiocese is traditionally represented by a cardinal, it was only natural that the Pope would pick Ritter's successor with considerable care. Nonetheless, the delay in filling the see was unusually long. One reason may be the dissension within the archdiocese between advocates of renewal and more cautious elements, which began even before Ritter's death. In 1965, for example, a group of 30 priests and laymen drew up a sweeping reform program, including the creation of an archdiocesan synod to extend the spirit of the Second Vatican Council. Although sympathetic to the idea...
...smokers' fellow midshipmen became aware of the offense, decided to report to Annapolis authorities. They did so despite the fact that the school's honor code, unlike those at the Air Force Academy and West Point, does not require students to report rule breaking by others. Nonetheless, most of the middies take pot seriously. "Drugs." explains Midshipman Maurice McNeil, "affect a man's judgment-and judgment is the big thing with a man in service...