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...suggested that the pace was too slow. Before Congress, he alluded to his government's belief that the U.S. has failed to meet Hanoi halfway. "At times we have regretted its length," he said of the peace conference, "and wondered whether the paths followed have always been the speediest and surest." Aware of the Administration's reluctance to appear the loser in Viet Nam, he mentioned France's past agonies of pride over Southeast Asia and Algeria. The end of the war in Viet Nam for the U.S., he said, "will be the most precious of victories...
...Indy 500 reached the 492-mile mark could hardly be blamed, of course. One by one, they had seen most of their favorites fall by the wayside: Graham Hill, the 1966 winner, out on the 24th lap with a sick piston in his Lotus-Ford; Mario Andretti, the speediest qualifier at 168.9 m.p.h., out on the 59th lap when his Brawner-Ford threw a wheel on the No. 3 turn; Dan Gurney, the second fastest qualifier (at 167.2 m.p.h.), black-flagged on the 161st lap with a blown cylinder in his American Eagle. And they had watched, first with...
High Price. This seemed to offer the speediest way to conclusion of the whole farm question, but when De Gaulle first read about the scheme in the French papers last March, he hit the ceiling. Summoning Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville and French Agricultural Minister Edgard Pisani, he demanded to know why he had not been warned about such supranational schemes in advance. They had to admit that the matter was news to them as well...
...Eagles lived up to their reputation as the speediest team on Harvard's schedule, but the Crimson kept up with them all the way until the end. The result was the fastest and best-played game in Watson Rink this year, and perhaps in many years...
...crusher during Harvard's only penalty of the night, called on Scammon at 17:43 for holding John Cunniff, B.C.'s speediest wing. John Moylan steered in Allan Kierstad's centering pass at 18:44, and it was all over...