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...meanwhile, does not intend to increase projected force levels in Viet Nam but will concentrate on honing its present commitment to maximum efficiency. Westmoreland's only significant request was to continue bombing the North without any extended pause. He compared the war to a knitted sweater, stretched and worn until the threads have grown thin. "In time," he said, "it will unravel. It is difficult to forecast when it will unravel...
Resistance people entered the fray, but by that time Hector had been severely beaten, with blood streaming down the right side of his face and his yellow velour sweater streaked with...
...dying screams of The Butter melt away, a fat boy in a blue pull-over sweater strolls on stage with a hand-mike. His introduction is an endless chain of bad jokes that is finally interrupted when Chuck Berry steps awkwardly on stage. This time the applause is polite, if only a burst of relief...
Martin Luther King, one of few winners of the Nobel Peace Prize to admit to even a single incarceration, marched off to jail last week for at least the 15th time. Garbed in his regular Bastille Day uniform-denim shirt, sweater and blue work pants-King flew from Atlanta to Birmingham, Ala., toting three books, the Bible, John Kenneth Galbraith's The New Industrial State, and William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner. He was whisked by sheriff's deputies to the Bessemer jail, about twelve miles from Birmingham in a Ku Klux Klan stronghold...
...Park rock-'n'-roll concert featuring Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, a boisterous band of some 150 Negroes wandered down toward midtown Manhattan, heaved trash baskets through the windows of three Fifth Avenue clothing stores and helped themselves. The looters' favorite was a $56 Austrian alpaca sweater, which is a status symbol in Harlem. Among the 23 whom police were able to catch: four Harlem summer antipoverty workers who earn up to $90 a week from the city...