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Briefly noting a table with five official Navy models that students try to identify, we moved on to a replica of a ship's bow standing about four feet high. Because many shipboard accidents occur when NROTC lubbers run afoul of the anchor chain, there is a complete anchor rigging to teach Harvard's sailors where not to stand when the anchor drops...
...military and financial control of the tiny kingdom of Jordan (whose British-trained Arab Legion is the Arab world's finest army) and its army base on the island of Cyprus. Faced with getting out of the Suez, the British at first talked of expanding Cyprus, but ran afoul of Cyprus' lack of harbors and the disfavor of the Cypriotes. The Libya pact was the answer, and an adroit...
...Pierre was the scourge of the neighborhood-borrowing the tenants' farm horses to race across country, frightening the villagers of nearby Préchâtel by roaring through their marketplace in his racing car. He frittered away a fortune and tried to recoup by smuggling, but fell afoul of the law and paid a heavy fine. He carried off the family treasures to pawn or sell. Once he was reduced to selling lollipops to vacationing suckers at a seaside resort...
...public to drink more milk-before it becomes butter. But with the carefully protected high price of milk, such a program would be foredoomed too, unless the Government could somehow make milk cheaper by reducing the middleman's profits. And right there Secretary Benson would run afoul of private enterprise...
Students who waited a day before buying their books this year ran afoul of the Coop's policy of Never Be Caught with a Large Inventory. They are still waiting. Other Square bookstores bow to the same doctrine, but their proportion of the required text business is so small they cannot afford to duck...