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...prospect that future Saigon governments will include at least some Communists. Hanoi will have to accept the reality that even a phased U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam will probably require at least three to five years. U.S. air power is likely to offer the South a protective umbrella for a much longer period...
...ruminating about one of the finer points of the game. "Legend placed the fountain of youth in Florida," he reported, "and coaches like Tony Cuccinello here, hitting his billionth fungo, suggest that the legend is true. With the fungo bat, an instrument as thin as a diplomat's umbrella, Cuccinello and other artists can place a ball just where a perspiring fatty can't quite grasp it. It's as precise and complicated an art as needlepoint and gets about as much attention." Investigating other byways of sport, Broun reported on the Copacabana waiter who felt that...
...favor of anything that would reduce the polarized situation that we are now in, anything that will allow us an umbrella for graceful withdrawal," he continues. "The look of the situation is more important than the content. If the look is ungraceful or dishonorable we may face really severe recriminations at home, and that would be really tragic...
FREE and voluntary debate is the essence of the University. Compulsory inquisition is not, and neither are mechanisms to determine which organizations fit under a certain moral umbrella that some number wants to prop up for all. A policy of open recruitment may seem to some a passive condonement of certain moral qualities. But can it be anything but worse to respond by specifically decreeing the moral qualities that must be observed here...
...British United Airways, Europe's biggest privately owned airline; in Colchester, England. In 1934, Wyatt joined Airwork Ltd., an aviation-equipment supplier, became managing director in 1938, in the postwar years snapped up smaller independent airlines to form BUA, and in 1961 created Air Holdings Ltd., a financial umbrella for the group, which recently agreed to purchase 50 Lockheed airbuses for $750 million, intending to use or resell the planes overseas...