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...Bruce Munro has left offensively is, as he puts it, "Felix, Felix, and more Felix." Felix is, of course, Felix Adedeji. A first team All-Ivy pick and league leading scorer two years ago, he started out last season with a four goal performance against Columbia, but a muscle spasm resulting from that game hobbled him the rest of the year. If Harvard is going to go anywhere offensively this fall, Adedeji will be a key. With his linemates gone, opposing teams will be able to concentrate on containing him more than in the past...
Almost inevitably, the cease-fire was preceded by an awesome spasm of violence. Both sides used the 117 hours between the announcement of the agreement and the actual start of the cease-fire to seek last-minute military advantage. The grabbing added up to some of the heaviest fighting since the Easter offensive. Flying from bases in Thailand, Navy carriers offshore and the airbase at Bien Hoa, home of the last U.S. combat unit in Viet Nam (see box), U.S. pilots flew record sorties in an effort to stop the Communist drive. The Viet Cong made some potentially significant last...
...sent the bombers north on a scale greater than any in the long war to force the North Vietnamese to bargain on his terms, and apparently it had worked-else why resume talking? Yet it was difficult to imagine Hanoi so obviously knuckling under to the U.S. spasm of bombardment, and a North Vietnamese spokesman in Paris put a different face on the event, saying: "Our position has always been that if the U.S. wished to solve the problem through serious negotiations, it should cease the acts of escalation and renounce the threat of force...
Apathy. At home Nixon was getting off rather lightly. There was no spasm of protest, as occurred during the Cambodian invasion. With Congress out of session, there was little opportunity for concentrated opposition there, though there were rumblings. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield promised to push once again for antiwar legislation. "It is long since past the time to stop worrying about saving face," he said, "and concentrate on saving lives and our own sense of humanity." Ted Kennedy issued a subdued call to arms: "Without question, if the war goes on, if the current tragic stalemate continues, many Senators...
...water bottles that elude his grasp and ropes that foil his attempts to hang himself. The character is a kind of vaudeville Sisyphus, and one can thank Beckett for the small favor that the playlet lasts only ten minutes. Not I lasts 15. It is the seemingly final verbal spasm of a woman of 70 (Tandy) who recounts fragments of her life and concludes that even her suffering does not add up to much of anything. Only the woman's spotlighted mouth can be seen, along with a huge, silent druidic figure who flaps his arms from time...