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Satisfying as it is to Saigon to know that Ho has problems remarkably akin to South Viet Nam's own, Western analysts are more intrigued by a spate of recent Red articles and broadcasts dealing with the progress of the war. The conflict has gone progressively worse for the Communists ever since the U.S. arrived in force last year. Only now does Hanoi seem to be groping for a new theology to sustain the Viet Cong in the face of continued reverses...
...aluminum plant. Also last week United Brazilian Minerals, which is 49% owned by Cleveland's Hanna Mining, was granted the right to mine and export iron ore and eventually to manufacture steel, an ambitious $600 million enterprise. The two new projects were only the latest in a spate of similar announcements. Phil lips Petroleum plans to pump in some $60 million, starting with a new fertilizer plant for which ground has already been broken. Union Carbide will expand its operations to the tune of $62,300,000. International Harvester has not only reopened; it is also spending $30 million...
License to Fail. The new stress in teaching theater has produced a spate of stunning new playhouses. The University of Illinois' entry is the $20 million Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, including three theaters. Tiny Shinier College (enrollment: 514) in Mount Carroll, Ill., has a 300-seat arena-type theater. The University of Michigan is building a $3,000,000 playhouse with 1,426 seats to serve the university and the off-campus Ann Arbor theater crowd. With $1,500,000 donated by Conrad Hilton, St. Louis' Webster College has put up its new Loretto-Hilton Center...
Despite a spate of illness and injuries that have prevented coach Dana Gechtell from making final appraisal of many players, the freshman soccer team goes into today's game against Exeter with an unbeaten record...
Legislation in recent years has gone a long way toward bolstering the Negro's rights in such fundamental areas as education and voting and toward easing his economic plight with a spate of antipoverty programs. Compared with such far-reaching laws, the 1966 civil rights bill seemed something of an anticlimax. It sought to right some blatant wrongs, most notably discrimination in the selection of juries and the sale or rental of housing. Yet, compared with the earlier legislation, the open-housing provision literally came a lot closer to home. The sad, even outrageous, but inescapable fact seems...