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...deal was to put on a play a week, which left hardly any time for rehearsal. A completely unsatisfactory engagement at the Fred Miller Theater in Milwaukee nearly finished them off. In fact, early in 1962, the principal members of the company had agreed to disband, only to regroup hours later when a chance to play in New York off Broadway opened up. They decided, said one, to "massage the heart," and though the engagement lost money, the troupe was offered a three-year contract for an annual 20-week stand (with proper rehearsal time) at the University of Michigan...
...fight when they were engaged, whether in the delta or farther north. Up in Quang Tin province, near Danang, a helilift of South Vietnamese paras, hoping to provoke a big battle, made contact with the Communists in a slough of serried hills, scuffled briefly but bloodily, then withdrew to regroup. The Viet Cong did not press their advantage, so the government troops waded in again. By week's end more than 300 Reds had been killed. Government losses were 34 dead-plus two U.S. Marine Corps advisers killed by ground fire...
...prowl. Moreover, the peaks of Cuba's Sierra Maestra mountains blocked the view for the big new radar in Miami used to track hurricanes up to 300 miles away. Cuba's mountains did something else. They broke up Cleo's eye, forced the hurricane to regroup. When it did, it changed direction to a more northerly course, was thus only 200 miles from the Florida coast when the hurricane trackers spotted Cleo again. Flying into the storm's eye, one tracking plane was buffeted so badly that seven of its crewmen were injured...
...Department (though ICC decisions are immune from antitrust prosecution), by several states and by some stockholders, but the recent record shows that the ICC usually follows its examiners' recommendations. It has approved six other rail mergers in the last five years and rejected none, seems wisely determined to regroup competition-pressed U.S. roads into a hardier handful of regional superroads...
...persistent ability to control loose balls the Tigers dominated play and maintained severe pressure on the Crimson. When Harvard did mount an attack, it hardly ever took more than one shot before it was forced to regroup and return to the defense...