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...more valor than luck that kept the Oriskany from going to the bottom of the Gulf of Tonkin. "There were just too many acts of heroism to count," said Skipper John Iarrobino. "There were literally hundreds. If there hadn't been, God only knows what the toll and the damage might have been." Almost everyone aboard performed with distinction, but the kids, the teen-aged sailors of the Oriskany, got particular acclaim for keeping her afloat. Said one seasoned chief: "Those crazy rock-'n'-roll jitterbuggers, they saved this ship today. Getting into that fire and pushing...
School Bells' Toll. Other budget directors apparently feel the same way, for not one major spending program has been cut back, not one major bond issue has been deleted from next week's ballot in response to the Administration's efforts. Voters will be asked to approve almost $2 billion in new spending, ranging from $230 million for higher education in California to $25,000 for fire apparatus in Austinberg Township, Ohio...
...cataclysmic state for eight years with enough success to merit re-election. Under his Master Plan for Higher Education, new, experimental public and private colleges have sprung up throughout the state. Faced with the difficulty of handling thousands of incoming residents, Brown has built the nation's largest toll-free highway system. He has kept the Southern California economic boom from coming to a rasping, bone-dry halt by forcing construction of a reservoir and water-pipe system rivalling the Tennessee Valley Authority in size and expense...
...nightfall, Prime Minister Harold Wilson flew in, and walked grimly among the miners, whispering words of encouragement. By week's end rescue crews had unearthed 130 bodies, most of them children, and police were predicting that the toll might go as high as 210-almost a full generation of the small, grief-stricken village...
...Between. The game of football has never been quite the same since-a good thing, too, because it might otherwise not even exist today. Old-fashioned "pig pile" football was a brutal way to spend an afternoon: the casualty toll for the 1905 season alone was 18 deaths and 149 serious injuries, and President Theodore Roosevelt talked about abolishing the sport. The forward pass opened up the game and made it safer. Massed defenses, designed only to stop a crunching ground attack, swiftly became obsolete as more and more teams included the pass among the weapons in their arsenals. Still...