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...Christmas gift for each of the men in South Viet Nam's 1st Regiment of the 1st Division, based just south of the Demilitarized Zone. It was the lightweight, fast-firing M-16 rifle, which packs far more punch than the older and heavier weapons that the ARVN (for Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) troopers had been carrying. The 1st Regiment soon had a chance to use them. During the Christmas truce, its scouts spotted a large North Vietnamese force moving into the Quang Tri coastal flats. As soon as the truce had ended, the ARVN moved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: ARVN: Toward Fighting Trim | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

...another as often as for children. One can easily understand why in this elegant, color-illustrated survey of a key period in the toy industry's history, 1860-1914, when the Industrial Revolution brought new techniques to toymaking. Machines could now roll metal into thin sheets, punch out forms, and fold them into the shape of toys that could be sold in greater numbers and at cheaper prices; inner works, such as clockwork miniatures, gave charm and humor to acrobat cyclists, gardeners with watering cans, mothers with prams, even mechanical accordionists who swayed as they played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Seasonal Shelf | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

...mile run, Harvard should be unbeatable with the one-two punch of Jim Baker and Doug Hardin. Baker and Hardin placed first and second respectively in the Heps last year and may well repeat. Junior Tim McLoone should be close behind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Distance Runners to Lead Strong Track-Field Team | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

...Terriers still had plenty of time and scoring punch to get back in the game, but Ron Mark finished them off at 8:57. The Crimson sophomore skated from left to right through the napping B.U. defense and swung the puck past McCann from ten feet out, dead center...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Skaters Top Terriers, 8-5 | 12/7/1967 | See Source »

...Terriers scoring punch has not been diminished at all, as evidenced by the 37 goals in four games. If B.U. is weakened it is at defense...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Harvard, B.U. Machines to Collide on Ice | 12/6/1967 | See Source »

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