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...where was the man? The world's most valuable twin-double ticket was finally claimed, not on the hour but nearly two days later, and not by the perennial underdog but by a platoon of upper-income New Jersey businessmen who arrived at the track in a long green Cadillac and left behind them the dis tinct impression of a gamble involving neither luck nor love of the game but of a cold-eyed investment by men who know their way around...
Forms of Evasion. The procession began with a platoon of civil rights lawyers backed up by the Justice Department, arguing that Prince Edward County, Va., should not be permitted to evade court-ordered desegregation by abolishing its public school system. After the Supreme Court's landmark segregation decision a decade ago, Prince Edward closed its public schools in 1959 and set up "private" schools for white children. Negroes had no schools at all from 1959 until last year. "We have a truly local-option law in Virginia," argued an assistant attorney from Virginia. As a friend of the court...
...platoon of medical experts who have examined Glenn are unanimous in holding that his loss of balance and equilibrium has nothing to do with his having been subjected to eight or nine times the force of gravity in his space flight. Most victims of injuries to the inner ear recover in three to six weeks after no more treatment than rest and good care. Glenn's recovery is taking longer than average...
Fortnight ago, a silver-haired Southern gentleman named John Crowe Ransom stood up in Manhattan to receive the 1964 National Book Award for poetry. As founder and editor of the Kenyon Review, mentor to a platoon of celebrated poets and writers, and father of the New Criticism, Ransom is probably the most influential U.S. scholar-critic of the past 40 years. As the author of a few slender books of poetry, he has drawn the highest praise from the knottiest intellectuals of his time...
Offered a rare opportunity to wipe out the Communist Viet Cong's crack 514th Battalion, some 2,000 U.S.-supported government troops last week trapped 500 of the enemy in a swamp ringed with coconut and banana groves, moved in for the kill. But a single Viet Cong platoon managed to hold off a timid government battalion for five hours. Other government troops failed to contact the enemy before dark. Instead of slipping away in the night as usual, the Viet Cong blasted right through the government lines and escaped, killing 22 government soldiers, wounding...