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Westmoreland's slam at Vietnam critics echoed a recent attempt by President Johnson to insure a minimum of strafing from his opponents, as his reelection campaign gets underway. "Men may debate and men may dissent, men may disagree, and God forbid that a time should come when men of this land may not," the President said, but he added that now was the time when debate should quiet and "men must stand...
Harvard swimmers produced some excellent times in the late events. Coming from behind in the last 10 yards, Burris won the 100-yard backstroke in 1:00.9, his best time this year. The freshmen recorded their third slam of the afternoon in the 100-yard breaststroke as Baumgart picked up the victory...
Nothing tickles a satellite nation more than turning the tables on Mother Russia. And last week at Grenoble, a pro-caliber Russian hockey team that had not lost a game in international competition since 1963 got its comeuppance from a gang of slam-bang Czechs, who spotted the Soviets a 1-0 lead, then struck back to win 5-4 and pull off the biggest upset of the entire winter games. Russia still managed to salvage a slightly tarnished gold medal when the Czechs could manage no better than a 2-2 tie in their final game against Sweden...
...news hit Australia and the world like the slam of a bullet. At first, there was disbelief. Such things just did not happen in affable, easy-going Australia, and certainly not to its Prime Minister. What astonished many was that the ruler of so large a nation should go about so casually and unguarded. Holt had neither wanted nor received any secret-service protection-an individualistic privilege that no other Prime Minister is likely to enjoy. Not until long hours after Holt's disappearance did the numbing awareness of truth finally set in. The full impact arrived only when...
...keep it up, Mike," radioed Knight. "Let's keep it up." But he heard no more from the X-15. Nobody saw it slam into the sparse Mojave Desert sagebrush 60 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Adams was aboard-the first man to die in an X-15. He did not-or could not-use the ejection device that might have parachuted him to safety...