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...Delta did not go under. Though no U.S. combat units were sent in, the American arrival elsewhere stiffened Vietnamese army morale all along the line. With the help of some 5,000 U.S. military advisers, government troops stemmed the rout and fought back to what is now essentially a military stalemate in the Delta. Given the increasing U.S. mastery of the battlefields to the north, stalemate in the Delta is no longer good enough. Last week Premier Ky announced the long-anticipated news: within a month, American combat units for the first time will move into the Delta in force...
Coach Cooney Weiland's treasured brainchild, "The Dream Line," exploded onto the scene with convincing reality at Brunswick, Maine, last night, scoring five goals to pace a 9-2 rout of Bowdoin. Junior Ben Smith, in his first varsity game at center, scored three goals, while left wing Dennis McCullough and right wing Kent Parrot each tallied once...
...since 1938. Then, after Franklin Roosevelt's unprecedented sweep in 1936 had given the Democrats fantastically bloated congressional majorities?333 to 89 in the House, 75 to 17 in the Senate?the G.O.P. rebounded and recaptured 80 seats in the House and six in the Senate. The 1964 Goldwater rout left the G.O.P. on the short end of a 295-to-140 count in the House and a 67-to-33 margin in the Senate. Dick Nixon overstated the case only slightly when he warned: "This is the year the Republican Party either goes up or goes...
When the day was over, goggle-eyed cops found they had confiscated an array of weaponry that would have enabled the original Minutemen of 1775 to rout the British at Lexington and conquer England as well. The trove included 115 rifles, five mortars, nine machine guns, 26 pistols, brass-knuckled trench knives, machetes, hunting knives, throwing knives, cleavers, two bazookas, three anti-tank grenade launchers, 50 camouflage uniforms and steel helmets, 30 walkie-talkies, ten cans of black powder, crossbows, and more than a million rounds of ammunition-plus arrows for the crossbows...
Grinding out yardage on the ground most of the way, the Dartmouth junior varsity football team piled up 20 points in the final quarter to rout Harvard yesterday...