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...should win 60 games between them. While weaknesses in the second line pitching and the middle of the infield will hurt, a line-up with Kuenn, Mays, McCovey, and Cepeda (in that order) can win day in and day out. With a handful of outstanding rookies and a tough nucleus of reliable stars, San Fransisco has the best combination of youth and experience in the league. Any one of four teams could beat them, but the Giants seem least likely to beat themselves this year...
With only four returning lettermen, competition among the oarsmen is unusually strong this year. Love notes he is depending on the returnees, led by captain Perry Boyden, to provide a strong nucleus for the shell. The other lettermen are seniors Luke Breckinridge and Ken Gregg and junior John Higginson. So far, Love said yesterday, he has not attempted to put together a varsity shell, but will begin testing combinations soon. If he is lucky he hopes to have a definite line-up by the end of vacation...
...those who rule the countryside rule the country." Prince Souphanouvong, though fuzzy on his Marxism, took the guerrilla lessons to heart. Equipped with a pair of black boots, Viet Minh aides and money, he marched off into the northern Laotian provinces, and in the next three years formed the nucleus of the Pathet...
...stealthy marauders are part of a select band of 1,800 specialists who make up the U.S. Army's Special Forces, a growing nucleus in U.S. military operations. Their job is to drop far behind enemy lines to rally partisan bands and teach them the prickly science of guerrilla warfare. Though the group was organized in 1952, its training and operations (two overseas units: one in Okinawa, one in West Germany) have been largely soft-pedaled. They blossomed from the shadows last week after President Kennedy-who has been reading books on guerrilla warfare by Mao and Castro...
...interest in other forms of writing, however, has remained basic and permanent. For Miss Gordimer, the need to communicate feelings and ideas is the nucleus around which the story takes shape and substance. "You want to say something. It comes from inside. It's a terribly selfish thing. You want to express yourself. Because other people are fundamentally like you, they find it interesting...