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...whose personal appearance does not give outsiders the right impression about Harvard. Besides guiding tours, the Crimson Key greets visiting athletic teams, acts as hosts for prospective students, runs a popular football-weekend bus service between Harvard and Wellesley, and other such matters. Its female counterpart, the Radcliffe Shield, is about the same in membership and in its approach...
...nearly a year the U.S. has been trying to talk Russia out of deploying an anti-ballistic-missile network around key Soviet cities. Such a move, President Johnson argued, would force the U.S. to erect a shield of its own at immense cost, thereby imposing "on our peoples and on all mankind an additional waste of resources with no gain in security to either side." But the Russians, with their own hawk-dove divisions to worry about, were not listening. Now, discouraged by the Soviet response, alarmed at the looming menace of China as a nuclear power and buffeted...
...Marines contracted their lines into a tight perimeter, then called in artillery and air strikes to shield them. Helicopters dumped nausea gas directly onto the enemy. Though its lines were breached at several points, Delta Company held its ground, and by next morning, two Marine companies were helilifted to the rescue. They caught the North Vietnamese as they attempted to retreat and killed 130 of them...
...full saga of Army Staff Sergeant Jimmy G. Stewart's heroism near An Khe in May last year lies buried with him. But eight Viet Cong corpses sprawled around his body bore testimony to the ferocity of the 23-year-old air cavalryman's last fight to shield five wounded comrades. As the only member of his six-man squad left unhurt by the Viet Cong's first surprise onslaught, Stewart alone battled a platoon for four hours, beating back three savage assaults. When his M-16 rifle was empty, Stewart crawled through a barrage of bullets...
...formula has not worked as well as it should have. The South Vietnamese army has taken to pacification duty only reluctantly; it contains pockets of corruption and indifference toward the peasants. Saigon's Revolutionary Development Teams formed to carry out pacification in hamlets behind the ARVN shield have had hard going, largely because the Viet Cong have killed nearly 1,000 team members...