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Military Muscle. The Turks were fighting mad, and troops and ships were ready at the seaport of Iskenderun to spearhead an invasion of Cyprus. But the Greek Cypriots, stiffened by thousands of reinforcements from the mainland, were cockily convinced of victory...
...Every American. Faulkner did not know everything about the South-at least about the new South. He knew few Negroes well, and no civil rights leaders at all, except in briefest acquaintance. He never understood (or anyway portrayed) the urban and educated Negroes that have been the spearhead of the civil rights fight. He saw federal action on civil rights through a haze of fact and legend about the Reconstruction imposed from the North. He never appreciated the imperative need for legal sanction of a Negro's right to sit at a bar, get a haircut, swim...
...Sargent Shriver, Director of the Peace Corps, has cancelled his plans to spearhead personally a recruitment drive in Boston area colleges next week, Michael Shinagel, associate director of the Office of Graduate and Career Plans, said last night...
...ROMAN CATHOLICS: Barth believes that thanks to Pope John XXIII "we are witnessing a complete reinterpretation of Roman Catholic dogma. The thoughts expounded by Hans Kűng and other modern theologians in Germany, Holland, France and elsewhere are no longer views of a small spearhead minority, but form the very ground swell of Catholic renovation." It would be "terrible if the Pope died now," but the trend of Catholic thinking "looks to me irreversible." Barth scoffs at the widespread Protestant view that Rome is at last catching up with the Reformation churches, says "it might well be that...
...quickest and one of the heaviest (239 Ibs. per man) offensive lines in pro football. To do his tackling, he has a sturdy, stingy defensive team that has permitted its opponents an average of only 102 yds. rushing. 127 yds. passing and 10 points a game. To spearhead the awesome (30 points per game) Packer attack. Lombardi boasts the league's most accurate passer. Quarterback Starr, who has completed 64f'f of his passes this season. He has the N.F.L.'s top ground gainer (1.318 yds.) in Jim Taylor, an oak-ribbed fullback who never runs around...