Word: tri
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...game of golf? At the Ivy League Tournament last Saturday, the Crimson linksters scored an impressive 13-stroke triumph over second-place Princeton. Yale was even further back than that. Yesterday at the Brookline Country Club, however, Harvard birdies turned into bogeys, and the Crimson placed third in a tri-meet, falling 374-401 to the Tigers. Yale finished second with a team total...
...fact that five scores, as compared to four in last weekend's Ivy Tournament, counted in the tri-meet goes a long way is explaining the Crimson's defeat. Harvard's depth is somewhat of a question mark, and as a result, coach Tim Taylor plans to take a long look at many players before deciding on the team which will enter the upcoming Easterns...
Before that championship, the linksters will be involved in two tri-meets. On Monday, they'll play against Brown and Boston College, and two days later, the opposition will consist of Williams and Holy Cross...
Thieu's obsessive reclusiveness has cost his country dearly in recent weeks. Apparently, after consulting only two close aides, he summarily ordered ARVN to abandon three provinces in the Central Highlands and the northernmost province of Quang Tri. Most Pentagon analysts acknowledge that on paper Thieu's strategy may have been sound: by shrinking his lines of defense, he should have, theoretically, made it easier to protect the most important areas of the country. But the same analysts roundly condemn Thieu's execution of that strategy. A "retrograde" maneuver ? as the experts euphemistically term such a withdrawal ? requires...
...reason for this painful loss of precious materiel was the very suddenness of Thieu's decision to abandon several provinces. Soldiers had no time to organize orderly retreats. In northern Quang Tri province, one of the army's best regional defense groups suffered a 15% desertion rate just before the Communist attack on the once lovely Hue; most of the deserters were concerned about the fate of their families. The retreat from Hue reached the frightening proportions of a stampede. Soldiers left behind 105-mm. howitzers and threw away rifles...