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...three years the Americans have bombed the North, with total disregard for the political implications," a South Vietnamese general said last month. "The next step was shelling government-controlled villages to rout the Cong. The logical extension of this policy is to use nuclear weapons. What else can you do when the 2000-pound bombs don't stop the Communists...
...Yardling tankmen turned an anticipated battle into a rout by grabbing first place in 9 of 11 events. In the process, they continued their assault on the record book, establishing two new freshman marks...
Shaw's record-jarring race was characteristic of the quality of Harvard performances in Wednesday's rout. At least six other Crimson thinclads turned in their best performances of the season...
Harvard played both Columbia and Cornell at the IAB last weekend and as might he expected, lost both games. The Cornell game was a four point affair, but the Columbia encounter degenerated in to a rout early in the second half...
...Manhattan. As a personal touch, 150,000 copies were mailed to voters in New Hampshire. Addressed "to the citizens of New Hampshire," Nixon's letter recalled his 14 years of Washington service and the forced retirement that followed his narrow defeat for the presidency in 1960 and his rout in California's 1962 gubernatorial race. During those private years, he wrote, he had had "a chance to reflect on the lessons of public office, to measure the nation's tasks and its problems." "I believe," he concluded, "that I have found some answers...