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Their objective is political, says the specialist. It is to inflict "the maximum number of American casualties within the shortest time period. They are banking on the shock value to merge with uninformed opinion in the U.S. to put pressure on the Johnson Administration to get out of Viet Nam." In purely military terms, of course, Hanoi's objective is to pin down the greatest possible number of American troops in the defensive position most favorable to the North Vietnamese, thus markedly reducing U.S. pressure on the Communist forces operating in the rest of I Corps...
...William Strawbridge, offered him a chance to collaborate from the start with Architect Olin Stephens on the design of the yacht. Bus agreed, and eight models, 35 modifications, 18 months of tank tests and $750,000 later, Intrepid slid down the ways at City Island, N.Y., last April-the shortest (at 64 ft.), homeliest, most radical and most expensive 12-meter yacht ever built...
...hours and ten minutes. Of course the two appearances of Hecate should be cut, since they are later interpolations--but this is a matter of only forty or fifty lines. Any further cutting is unwise. The text as we have it is, except for The Comedy of Errors, the shortest in the canon. It is hardly more than half as long as Hamlet. As it stands, it is tightly constructed. There are no sub-plots, and no excrescences. Everything deals with the prime matter at hand--even the drunken porter's scene has a far more important function than that...
...finest hour," boasted an Israeli spokesman. "Or did it take longer than that?" Darryl Zanuck announced plans for a zillion-dollar war movie entitled The Shortest Day. Cassius Clay, the erstwhile Muhammad Ali, changed his name to Morris Steinberg. Ten bar mitzvahs were scheduled at the Nile Hilton, and Jennie Grossinger agreed to manage the hotel...
Tomorrow is the Preakness, the second, the shortest, and the richest of the three races that make up the Triple Crown for three-year-olds. Understandably, no one is doing much talking about that either. Although the final line will not be made up until today, it is fairly certain that the first five Derby finishers will be among the Preakness starters, and the Derby raised many more questions than it answered...