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...others ransacking Saigon's Newport PX, that transplanted dream of American suburbia, with one woman bearing off two cases of maraschino cherries on her head and another a case of Wrigley's Spearmint gum. Out in the South China Sea, millions of dollars worth of helicopters profligately tossed overboard from U.S. rescue ships, discarded like pop-top beer cans to make room for later-arriving choppers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WAR: The Last Grim Goodbye | 5/12/1975 | See Source »

...varsity has the first-seed honors despite its man-overboard loss to Navy. But the traditionally cautious Higginson seems confident with his crews' prospects. "We're pretty well prepared and the Princeton course is slightly more fair than Worcester," he said...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Confident Crimson Crews Sprint to Princeton... | 5/9/1975 | See Source »

...Media Overboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, May 5, 1975 | 5/5/1975 | See Source »

...never resort to such terms myself. I am, in fact, consistently sympathetic to the Chinese throughout. It is only the media I portray as going overboard. Allen Drury San Rafael, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, May 5, 1975 | 5/5/1975 | See Source »

Harvard, on the other hand, will not be treating its rather pathetic competition with much compassion, as Higginson's varsity is still recovering from its man-overboard loss to Navy last weekend...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Lightweights Host Princeton and Yale In Goldthwait Cup | 5/2/1975 | See Source »

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