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...fourth straight season the Big Green had won or shared the crown. Dartmouth was co-champion with Cornell a year ago, and tri-champion with Yale and Princeton...
...difference in networks was so slight, if the night was so brief, if the minutes of prediction were so close, why did the broadcasters dispatch so much personnel and hardware? After all, even with the unprecedented tri-network sponsorship of J.C. Penney-manifestly hoping for gilt by association-all three networks maintained their honorable tradition of losing money on the Big Night. The answer does not lie behind the screen but before it. "Every man speaks of public opinion," wrote G.K. Chesterton, "and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion." No matter what the polls said, the viewer...
...walked in on a position. Each day, when one drives up the highway through the flat open rice fields, progress is stopped closer to Saigon." The going on Route 1 is just as tough. The elite 81st Special Airborne Ranger Brigade, which helped save An Loc and recapture Quang Tri, is being tied down clearing areas only 16 miles from Saigon...
...major deal that was heavily freighted with international politics, Japan's All Nippon Airways last week ordered six of Lockheed's L-1011 Tri-Stars, which are powered by Britain's Rolls-Royce engines. The $130 million sale was a sorely needed and roughly won victory for Lockheed, which was saved from bankruptcy by a $250 million federal loan guarantee 14 months ago and is counting considerably on the TriStar for its future. The plane nosed out McDonnell Douglas's DC-10 and a short-range version of Boeing's 747 for the All Nippon...
...Thich Tri Quang, a militant Buddhist monk, spearheaded his church's noisy protest movement against a succession of Saigon governments. Intense and ardent, an excellent organizer, Tri Quang inspired the beginning of the Buddhist demonstrations against Diem in 1963, followed through in 1965 and 1966 against Premier Ky and President Thieu. As the latter solidified his power, Tri Quang drifted back to his pagoda in Saigon. Now he is studying Buddhist scriptures, toying with a stamp collection and perhaps thinking out ways to deal with a new government...