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Though the debate over Viet Nam had diminished by quite a few decibels, Vice President Hubert Humphrey's voice still rang out loud and clear in defense of the American stand. In a speech before Washington's National Press Club, Humphrey observed that "the war in Viet Nam is far more than Neville Chamberlain's 'quarrel in a remote country among people of whom we know nothing' "-an allusion to the British Prime Minister's celebrated remark about Hitler's planned invasion of Czechoslovakia...
...manifesto rang with a tone of bitter disappointment. "We are growing intellectually passive," it said. "Much of our time is squandered in academic exercises from which we learn little...
...Look at It Now." Last week alone, the 10,000 men of the 18th Engineer Brigade were building a 10,000-ft. jet-fighter strip at Phan Rang, a floating dock that will double the capacity of the Qui Nhon harbor, a communications facility and a 60-bed hospital for the 1st Air Cavalry at An Khe, a 250,000-sq.-yd. ammunition dump at Long Binh, and fortifications and housing at Cu Chi for newly arrived troops of the 25th Division. In one recent seven-day period, the men of the 18th worked 161,923 man-hours, hauling...
...even with a rooting muse like that, the team packed up for Los Angeles, leaving its poet in residence behind in Brooklyn, where she went on celebrating the borough, her "city of trees." But in the following season, she found that not all the bums had gone West. Drunks rang her doorbell at 3 a.m., and "one of my neighbors was robbed three times," she complained. So, at 78, after 35 years, Miss Moore moved to Greenwich Village, where a baseball diamond is very square...
...doorbell rang. The policewoman peered through a peephole, asked who was there. "Parcel-delivery service," came the reply. As the policewoman left the room, three cops, with two shotguns and a pistol, took her place. One jerked open the door, and the two intruders burst in. The cops opened fire. Skalla had arranged with the police to drop before they opened fire, but he missed his cue in the excitement. He and Bailey were gunned down; Bailey died instantly, but Skalla lingered for three hours. "In my opinion, they were prepared to shoot us," said Lieut. B. L. Cork...