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...President had settled on this third alternative by the time he returned from his Key Biscayne weekend last Monday, but took several more days to ponder, discuss and whip his arguments into shape-largely in consultation with Adviser Henry Kissinger. The Nixon solution has both the virtues and defects of most compromises: it may fall short of either its political or military objective, but it has a fair chance of being accepted by Congress and may be politically tenable for a while...
Desire to Play. Great as it was, Mantle's achievement still causes some baseball men to ponder how much greater it might have been. "With good legs," says former Yankee Catcher Elston Howard, "he would have hit 70 home runs in a season." Adds Casey Stengel: "In the years to come, when they read about him in the record books, nobody will ever believe he was a cripple...
...example of Black Theater. The play explores the material and psychological problems of a black Harlem family. The characters are neither one-dimensional nor stereotyped. Elder develops them into full black human beings: they face and resolve some of the problems raised, leaving others for the audience to ponder...
Already ahead, 6-0, Springfield widened its lead in the next bout when Tom Pollard pinned Harvard's 130-ponder Bill Wasserstrom, who was filling in for Goodman...
...chosen for the Shaw trial last week were beginning an ordeal known as "sequestration." Another dozen will meet much the same fate this week or next when they will be shut up in a Los Angeles hotel. They are the California citizens who will ponder the fate of Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, who is accused of assassinating Senator Robert Kennedy...