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...archives, the University would have had to come up with its own plan, possibly favoring a nearby Watertown site for the entire complex, or offering to subsidize construction of the archives here. But it instead rejected taking a dynamic role in the decision process and relied on the vain hope that Kennedy allegiances to Harvard would overcome the infeasibility of the plan they backed...
...national leaders who now strain to assure us that our boys did not die in vain in Viet Nam are only trying to salve their own guilt, and all of us who long for that assurance are doing the same...
...After a vain two-day search for a substitute, the leading generals accepted Minh's conditions. But then a new obstacle appeared in the form of Huong himself. Asthmatic and nearly blind, Huong sensed a last opportunity to play a historic role. In his acceptance speech, he surprised everyone by vowing to "fight until the troops die or the country is lost" and to "be buried with his soldiers." While stubbornly insisting that he remain the legitimate President of South Viet Nam, he later seemed to adopt a less drastic position, promising to start negotiations with the Communists. The feeble...
With the enemy literally at the gates, Saigon last week seemed to be in a state of schizophrenia-and in both phases seemed equally mad. With their inbred fatalism and stoicism, the 3 million residents of the old French colonial capital fought, often in vain, against a rising sense of terror. The result, as TIME Correspondents Roy Rowan and William McWhirter cabled from Saigon, was a strange blend of serenity and fear in the aloof and careless city that had so largely been spared the shock...
...urban fringes, where land was cheap and speculators bought marginal farm land for a few lire per square yard, then subdivided and sold for profits of 500%. Many of the builders who bought the land dutifully filed for construction permits. But after months, even years, of waiting in vain for the creaky bureaucracy to move, most went ahead without permits and broke ground, confident that bustarelle -little envelopes stuffed with lira notes -would forestall any action by the city. Even when more conscientious officials discovered the wrongdoing, nothing happened. Over the past four years, Rome's Mayor Clelio Darida...