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This brings us to the only League contest besides the skirmish in the Stadium. Princeton's surging Tigers receive what should be a strong test today from Gary Wood...
Meal Ticket. Finally, after a border skirmish earlier this month in which Algerian troops killed ten Moroccan soldiers, Hassan mobilized his crack, 35,000-man royal army. The immediate military targets were two tiny, desolate outposts: Hassi Beida, little more than a water hole and a few palm trees perched on a stony hill, and Tin-joub, a mud-walled fort seven miles to the east. One day last week a battalion of 1,000 Moroccan infantry armed with bazookas, recoilless cannon and heavy machine guns stormed both outposts, seized them after a four-hour battle in which at least...
...third skirmish in Cambridge's long battle over foundation will be fought in a referendum Nov. 5. If can extrapolate from past referenda--the fluoridation of City water was rejected by over 6,000 votes in and approved by 42 votes in 1959--the result should be a decisive victory for the profluoride forces. Both sides are confident of victory, however, and seems likely to admit permanent defeat...
...good works, or through abiding faith in Christ as Lord and Savior? The question of justification, which in the theological sense is the way in which man achieves freedom from guilt, is as old as Christianity, and so is the battle over what the right answer is. The latest skirmish in this theological war was fought this month in Helsinki, where 800 dele gates to the fourth Assembly of the Lu theran World Federation spent twelve days trying to produce a modern statement of Luther's classic Reformation doctrine that man is justified by faith alone. The debate ended...
Bloodthirsty Marauders. But it is also possible that, after a decade of the half-forgotten Korean armistice, marked only by minor skirmishes and routine infiltration attempts, the Chinese-dominated North Koreans now want to prod and poke the U.S. For days, the North Korean radio has been ranting that the "U.S. imperialist troops'-must be driven from South Korea. Al week's end a sizable group of Communist soldiers boldly penetrated 500 yards into the U.S. sector and waged a two-hour skirmish with U.S. patrols...