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...Tennis at Syracuse, noon...
...their relationship (and because MacDowell can't act her way out of a paper bag). Our sleepless nights when we were together last year were spent in other ways, but I was always glad to be there at 2 a.m. when we both slaved away on papers due at noon, when he would wave his arms in the air and proclaim "I'm doomed!"--and we'd both laugh, and be able to give each other support to make it through. This is a real relationship. I didn't need Lezama to tell me condescendingly, "So think about it, Rebecca...
...rate, by noon on April 30, the NVA was broadcasting that it had captured Saigon and renamed it Ho Chi Minh City, after the communist leader who had started the rebellion in what was then a French colony all the way back in 1946. There was more to come: for Vietnamese, the "re-education" camps, the flight of the boat people, the gradual softening of a harsh communist regime. For Americans, the new sensation of total, undisguisable defeat. But amid all the joy, bitterness, fear and misery, the overwhelming sentiment of Americans, and even of some Vietnamese, was probably...
...could see it was just chaos. People running back and forth. Some people--mostly women and children, no men--just waiting, with bags and suitcases. I guess they were hoping to get out, but the airport was already blocked." An American C-130 did manage to land at noon, says Ninh. "It swerved all over the place because of the shelling. And [when it touched down], the pilot and some passengers got out and ran off to the military side of the base." That was the end of American fixed-wing flights. A most anticlimactic end; NVA soldiers searching...
Softball vs. Pennsylvania, 12 noon...