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Researcher Nancy Williams used to think herself above all superstition. But all week long she noticed the numbers 7, 2 and 1 recurring in reports from correspondents. She now plans to get out to the track as soon as she can to make what she figures will be some shrewd wagers on the daily double...
...short time later, Ware was given one of the Army's most coveted combat assignments: the command of the famed 1st Infantry Division. A shrewd and sure tactician, he improved the Big Red One's ability to fight at night and to pursue the enemy in running battles. Just such a running skirmish erupted last week when a Big Red One brigade met the Viet Cong near the town of Loc Ninh, 75 miles north of Saigon. Ware, who made it a practice to be with his troops in combat, rushed to the battle in his helicopter...
Only In Brownsville. For the second year in a row, the school year in New York City opened last week with the teachers on strike. A strike vote had been called by Albert Shanker, the tough, shrewd president of the teachers' union, when the locally elected Brooklyn committee refused to reinstate ten teachers it had ordered out of the district last year and tried to replace 200 teachers who had walked out in sympathy. The city's 4,000 school supervisors, including principals and district superintendents, aided the strike by ordering schools closed for the children...
...spaghetti"); CBS obliged, signed General Telephone & Electronics Corp. Although Horowitz accepted the ground rule that no piece should last longer than ten minutes, he stuck by his determination "not to play down to the public, but not to be too esoteric either." His program is a shrewd sampling of nine works from his recent recitals, including the noble pathos of Chopin's Polonaise in F-Sharp Minor, the lapidary classicism of two Scarlatti sonatas, and the flashy fireworks of his own Variations on a Gypsy Song from Bizet's "Carmen...
...Shrewd, articulate and widely read, the 69-year-old king notably enhanced his country's chances for a choice inkhululeko (independence) during the long wait. Swaziland has tripled its exports (to $58 million) in the past four years by completing a new, 140-mile railroad and by attracting such faraway customers as Japan, a major buyer of the kingdom's abundant iron ore. Beneath Swaziland's lush valleys and mountains are also gold, coal and asbestos. Cattle herds dot the sloping grassland, and citrus orchards and sugarcane fields flourish. Not the least of Swaziland's assets...