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...quietly as their bellowing engines will permit, U.S. Navy and Air Force jets have been flying reconnaissance missions over Laos since last May. Their purpose is twofold: to keep an eye on the Communist Pathet Lao, who have been relatively passive lately, and to see who or what is filtering down from North Viet Nam along the Ho Chi Minh Trail through Laos and into South Viet Nam. Last week, three days apart, two U.S. jets were knocked down by Communist guns near the murkily marked "panhandle" where North Viet Nam forms a narrow corridor between Laos...
...answer is twofold. First, since the single wing is practically extinct, teams no longer construct defenses to cope with it. Princeton's opponents must hastily slap together new defensive formations, with no time for the players to learn them well...
...difficulties of administering and staffing a non-departmental program in a strongly departmentalized university are well known. In the particular case of the Committee on General Education, which is empowered to run the Harvard General Education Program, the problem is twofold...
...purposes of this division, which we shall call General Education Electives, are twofold. First, we wish to preserve a place in the Program for courses by distinguished members of the Faculty without the requirement that they fit into either of the other two main divisions. Second, we wish to keep for the Committee on General Education a domain in which they can experiment with a new course offerings, for example in non-Western cultures and creative arts, that may not fit into the other divisions...
General Artur da Costa e Silva, 61, the army's senior ranking officer and one of Brazil's ablest tacticians, began organizing and planning. The plan was twofold. First, troops at Juiz de Fora, in Minas Gerais state, would rise up in rebellion. Then would follow a pause until Goulart's loyal forces were fully committed to crushing the trouble in Minas Gerais. Then a main force would march on Rio, and other commands would join the revolt. Costa e Silva's emissaries began crisscrossing the country, discreetly lining up support. "In the final days before...