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Smith's return next Saturday will help the first problem. The second is something Harvard has had to live with since September, and now that fullback Gus Crim is sidelined for the season with an injured kidney, will have to adjust to for the remainder of the fall. But the lack of imagination has bothered Harvard's offense all fall, and unless coach John Yovicsin allows his quarterbacks to open up the Crimson attack, there is little chance that the offense will carry its share of the burden...
...unless Harvard upsets undefeated Dartmouth next week, its chances of defending the Ivy League championship are nearly hopeless. The Crimson needs to adjust both its offense and defense drastically, and mid-October is no time to begin such a task...
...week the U.S. abruptly throttled back. Not long after Mexican Foreign Minister Antonio Carrillo Flores personally complained to Secretary of State William Rogers by telephone, U.S. and Mexican representatives announced in Washington that Operation Intercept had been replaced by "Operation Cooperation." The U.S., said a terse communiqué, would "adjust" customs procedures to cut out "inconvenience, delay and irritation"-meaning that the border inspections would be eased. In two weeks, talks are to begin in Mexico City on a joint antidrug effort. U.S. officials are calling that a victory, but it has the ring of a bugout too. The latest...
...drug blockade of the Mexican border under way since September 27, has caused official Mexican protests. In response, a joint American-Mexican conference since announced that the United States would "adjust" its inspections to alleviate unnecessary delays...
Jargon, the sublanguage peculiar to any trade, contributes to euphemism when its terms seep into general use. The stock market, for example, rarely "falls" in the words of Wall Street analysts. Instead it is discovered to be "easing" or found to have made a "technical correction" or "adjustment." As one financial writer notes: "It never seems to 'technically adjust' upward." The student New Left, which shares a taste for six-syllable words with Government bureaucracy, has concocted a collection of substitute terms for use in politics. To "liberate," in the context of campus uproars, means to capture...