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...Drang Valley, which were resounding defeats for the Reds. Historian Bernard Fall suggested recently that these defeats may well be considered by future historians "the First Battle of the Marne of the Vietnamese War," recollecting that "the Battle of the Marne in September 1914 halted the seemingly irresistible onslaught of the Kaiser and thus foreclosed the possibility of an immediate end of the war through the collapse of the French...
Eliot surprised Winthrop, the second-place team last year, 19-6, behind the quarterbacking of Bunk Reed and the onslaught of a heavy line. Tom Mecham, "the Red Terror," accounted for all three Eliot House touchdowns, two of which came on passes from Reed. Reed also connected with Kim Prince on three occasions. Jamie Niven delivered the crowning blow to Winthrop by finally mastering a point-after-touch-down with a soccer-styled boot...
Fortunately the News proved able to withstand the onslaught. While teachers and students, organizations of teachers and students, and even a Boston newspaper of two lambasted the News for questioning the academic merits of military training, Mungo and his staff persisted in their right to challenge accepted institutions, rules, ideas and men. That remains the ultimate task of a newspaper...
...Onslaught. In 1949, while visiting New York to investigate the possibilities of bringing a touring company to the U.S., Bing got into a discussion with some of the Met's board of di rectors. They were looking for a successor to Edward Johnson. What, the directors asked, would Bing do if he were head of the Met? "I haven't the slightest idea," he shot back. But further discussions generated significant ideas, and it was not long before Bing was awarded "the kind of job I had aimed at all my life...
Surely no man immersed himself more thoroughly in his work. Bing today has no private life, no hobbies, no interest in anything but the Met. To gather strength for each six-day onslaught of problems, he spends all day Sunday in bed, like Lenin lying in state. He is a solitary figure who thinks of himself still as "a guest in this country," and he keeps himself insulated from the rhythms that make other men move. He is Old World to the heart and carries his British citizenship like a shield. As far as Bing is concerned, he could...