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Captain Bobby Clark, who opened at defense tonight but returned to the forward, capped the scoring from pointblank range when he converted a pass across the crease from Miller...
...nursery stopped one Viet Cong company at the edge of town. When the guerrillas opened fire on two U.S.-made 105-mm. howitzers defending the local military headquarters, the platoon of Vietnamese artillerymen shortened their fuses to 2 sec., slammed shells into the breaches, and blasted away pointblank at anything that moved-firing an awesome 322 rounds in an hour. The barrage turned back the enemy, who left 13 dead v. the government's 15 killed. Said a surprised American adviser who arrived shortly afterward: "Somebody threw something into the balance that the Viet Cong had not expected-guts...
...week's end, Dick Nixon showed up at a conference of Republicans in Sun Valley, Idaho, and was besieged by newsmen who asked him pointblank: "Would you accept a draft?" Replied Nixon: "The answer is no. Despite all the talk about drafts, there has never been one in history. The candidate has always initiated it, and this I will...
...teller of fairy tales, Hans Christian Andersen. Borge, wearing half-spectacles "for very short stories.'' read two Andersen tales to some 100 bemused tots. The children could not quite feign indifference to a real King and Queen, and at one point a local lad asked chainsmoking Frederik pointblank: "King, where is your crown? I thought all Kings wore crowns." Affable Frederik explained that a crown is a special-occasion headpiece: "I only wear it when I'm in Denmark.'' The answer did not quite satisfy the boy, who later told newsmen that he was sure...
Just as effective were the pictures of scenes back "East," where Mississippi River boats were even more fantastic than the legend they left behind. Director Donald Hyatt contrasted long, sweeping shots through their chandeliered salons with pointblank stares into the close-set eyes of floating card sharks. Then, from Hawaii to Egypt, the show followed Mark Twain following the innocents abroad, set the Eton-collared little Lord Fauntleroys of late 19th century America against the Huckleberry Finn of then and all time. Like a big frog always about to make a prizewinning jump, Sam Clemens stood out against his background...