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...necessarily a friendly one, though. In Peking, at a multicourse banquet for representatives of nations that had voted for China's entry into the U.N., Acting Foreign Minister Chi Pengfei used the occasion to give the delegation an appropriately revolutionary sendoff. "The one or two superpowers are finding it more and more difficult to engage in truculent acts of manipulating the U.N. and international affairs," he declared. "Countries want independence, nations want liberation, and people want revolution-this has become an irresistible trend in the world today...
...crumbling buildings and hangars, one man died, eleven were injured and 33 helicopters were damaged beyond repair. In all, Hester wreaked more havoc on the base in 24 hours than the Viet Cong or the North Vietnamese army could have done in six months. It was a sadly appropriate sendoff. Last week Kroesen pulled the lanyard on an artillery piece and officially fired the last round of the Americal in combat...
When New York Mayor John Lindsay switched to the Democrats last month, Monday gave him a sour sendoff. Lindsay, wrote Editor John Lofton Jr., 30, "left the Republican Party not because it was unresponsive to his liberalism, but because it was unresponsive to his ambition." Lofton predicted that the Lindsay switch would doom the candidacy of Senator George McGovern: "Hoping McGovern will hold on to the left-liberal youth vote in a primary contest with Lindsay is like hoping the fraternity brothers will prefer Snow White to Raquel Welch...
Columbia will be very bad this season, but Lafayette will be worse. A good sendoff for new Lion coach Frank Navarro and his passing combination of Marty Domres and Bill Wazevich...
...Saturday afternoon. If they all looked as scrubby as the bunch from Harvard in the picture, I would venture that the whole demonstration has hurt, rather than helped, their cause. Their altruistic motives are admirable, but I distrust their ulterior ones. The more objectionable members of the Lampoon sendoff should be chastised, but more because it is unkind to call an overweight child "fatty" because he overeats to compensate for emotional problems. Fifteen thousand able-bodied students putting in an eight-hour day could raise a minimum of $120,000--a sum which, turned to the proper channels, could inform...