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SALISBURY, Md., Feb. 17 -Charles Pasarell's two-year reign as United States indoor tennis champion came to an end today.
Pres Johnson, in send-off messages at 2 US bases to combat troops being rushed to Vietnam, says time is decisive; says enemy's answer to diplomatic probes is pillage; makes other comments; illus
The U. S. Marines' encampment at Khesanh, to say the least, hardly looks worth fighting over. Its wooden buildings have been pounded into splinters by enemy mortars. The barbed wire along its perimeters is rusting. The sandbag bunkers are cold, miserable. And everything there -- including the Marines -- are coated with a thick layer of red clay dust.
Diplomacy is usually a curious blend of shadow and substance, of meaningful concessions and calculated maneuvers. It has never been more so than in Vietnam.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 14, 1968, covering February 18, 1968.
The Beatles
Bob Dylan
The Rolling Stones
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Diana Ross & The Supremes
1968Molly Ringwald, American actress[†]
Molly Kathleen Ringwald is an American actress, writer, and translator. She began her career as a child actress on the sitcoms Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life before being nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her starring role in the drama film Tempest (1982). Ringwald became a teen idol following her appearances in filmmaker John Hughes' teen films Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985), and Pretty in Pink (1986). These films led to the media referring to her as a member of a group of actors known as the "Brat Pack."
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]