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...concrete walls. Across the parking lot reserved for top military brass, down the steps, and sloping out over the rolling wall, demonstrators spilled. Some of them were warming themselves in front of bonfires made with ripped-up placards and sticks. A long line of buses with their headlamps glowing strung-out along the access roads. The air was chilly but still evening-calm, and a heavy yellow moon hung over the whole scene...
...Damascus has any flaws, they are the kind that a shrewd trainer and top jockey can handle. Unlike Kelso, who was practically a pet around the stable, Damascus has a high-strung, rankish personality that sometimes loses races. Favored at 17-10 odds in the Kentucky Derby, he was already sweating before the start, folded in the stretch, and wound up third. To keep him calm in the stable, Trainer Frank Whiteley has now put a radio in his stall; Whiteley also dips the colt's protective leg bandages in a peppery solution to stop him from chewing...
...routes from the North, the 1,200-man garrison is there to prevent, or at least slow down, a southward surge by the estimated 35,000 North Vietnamese regulars positioned in and around the DMZ. Poised to meet this threat are eight South Vietnamese airborne and eight Marine battalions strung along the DMZ; in all of I Corps...
...that there were seven good tennis players in the Senate, only one of whom-New York's Jacob Javits, 63-is a Republican. When Pennsylvania's Democrat Joseph Clark saw fit to mention the matter on the Senate floor, Tennessee Republican Howard Baker netted five other tautly strung Republicans for doubles duty in something called the U.S. Senate Tennis championship. The Washingtonian knew what it was talking about. Democrats Clark and Claiborne Pell (R.I.) knocked off Illinois' Charles Percy and South Carolina's Strom Thurmond with loveless abandon. Massachusetts' Edward Brooke and Baker bounced back...
...ranch is beginning to cash in. Last week, completing the first step of a project that may rank as one of the biggest land developments in the U.S., the Irvine Company opened a $20 million, 75-acre super shopping center called Fashion Island. The center embraces 56 handsome stores strung along a broad, tree-lined pedestrian mall overlooking the Pacific. Aiming at well-heeled shoppers from suburban Newport Beach and Balboa as well as Los Angeles, Fashion Islanders expect to ring up sales of $35 million a year...