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First there was the Wilt Chamberlain Rule, designed to force him away from the basket by widening the "3-sec. zone," in which an offensive player can remain for only 3 sec. at a time. Next came the Bill Russell Rule, which forbids blocking a shot when the ball is...
So far, Castro is not bending. Speculation about his worsening relations with Russia increased sharply last week when he announced that his brother, Raúl, Cuba's second-in-command and the island's main contact man with Russia, had been replaced "temporarily" as armed forces minister...
"We cannot state too forcefully," the letter continues, "our conviction that any long range widening of the war risks domestic responses that could embarrass the government. Because we are disturbed by the prospect of widening non-cooperation at home, we are convinced that it is essential that the government take...
At most schools, tuition charges meet less than 20% of the total cost of instruction. Every year the tuition at public universities inches nearer the level of charges at private schools. Every year, also, there is a widening gap between tuition charges for state residents and those who cross the...
When it comes to Viet Nam, Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. roosts neither with the hawks nor the all-out doves. Admittedly, he is unhappy that the U.S. ever got involved there, but he argues in this slender book, drawn chiefly from three recent magazine articles, that "our precipitate withdrawal...