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Coach Johnny Lee's Harvard freshmen finished their undefeated season by beating Yale 18-12 in the preliminary, as heavyweight Bob Panoff came from behind to stave...
...found himself with a power base that inevitably drew him into Saigon's politics. He became a protege of goateed General Nguyen Khanh, who promoted Air Commodore Ky to the Anglicized altitude of air vice-marshal. In return, Ky twice scrambled his Skyraiders over Saigon to stave off coup attempts against Khanh's 'government-once even resorting to the cold threat to flatten Saigon with bombs if the rebels refused to cease and desist. Ky probably would not have carried out the threat, but the plotters could never be sure. They ceased and desisted...
After waltzing through the first two games. Harvard's Steve Simpson (five) had to stave off Fred Levin's late rally to salvage a 15-5, 15-9, 8-15, 18-14 victory...
India's Minister of Food Chidambaram Subramaniam flew into Washington last week on an urgent mission that may mean life or death for thousands of his countrymen. He came to appeal for tons more of U.S. food to help India stave off what threatens to be its worst food crisis in two decades. With Subramaniam came assurances from Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri that India, after years of giving top priority to industrialization, will put more emphasis on agriculture in the new five-year plan that begins in April, and will spend $11 billion for fertilizer, farm machinery, irrigation...
...French view of the Vietnam war isn't strictly anti-American. They just merely think we're stuck with a bad policy that is a stumbling block to the settlement of other international issues. Although some analysts admit that recent American military sucesses may stave off defeat and produce a stalemate, the majority feel that the Viet-cong is going to win. After their own decade of disastrous fighting in Southeast Asia, such pessimism from the French is understandable. And after seeing American strategists in Paris, copying French battle reports, debriefing vetran officers, and reimplementing French battle plans, most French...