Word: almost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the meeting, McElroy told newsmen that the Air Force and Navy would each be cut by 5,000 men next year. Almost casually, he raised the NATO-jarring prospect of eventual reduction of the U.S.'s 650,000-man forces overseas. "It is possible over a period of time that other NATO countries will increase their contributions of strength, and that they may come to the conclusion that it might be to their own advantage that we deploy forces elsewhere." But such a decision, McElroy indicated happily, would fall in some future budget maker...
...problem is going to be in the backfield, from which almost every one of the League's top performers is graduating. (Chet Boulris, Dartmouth's Bill Gundy and Jake Crouthamel, Brown's Paul Choquette, Yale's Rich Winkler, Penn's Fred Doelling, Princeton's Dan Sachs, Cornell's Marcy Tino and Phil Taylor). In addition, the Crimson is losing starters Albie Cullen and Sam Halaby...
...most likely candidates for Boulris' left halfback job, with Repsher probably taking over at right halfback. Williams is big and fast, and can pass; he sat out most of the season with injuries, but looked good in the Yale game. Mcintyre, the team's best punter, was running almost as well as Boulris for a while against Penn; he too was bothered by injuries this year. Shipman, Damis and Armstrong will be speedy and capable replacements...
Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, Emeritus, still feels, 25 years later, that his effort in 1935 to rescind the Massachusetts Teachers Oath were well worth while. At that time, Mather withtood public opinion and almost defied the President of the University in his outspoken stand against the oath...
...spectators are an extremely knowledgeable and convivial lot. Soccer at the pre-college level is confined almost entirely to the Eastern prep schools, and most rosters are studded with athletes from Andover, Exeter, Deerfield, and the rest. Thus, a soccer crowd is likely to consist of people who share this "preppy" orientation. Also, since soccer fans, once committed, are passionately loyal to the game, those in attendance usually understand every rule and nuance. Programs were a luxury the team could not afford this year, but, after the season's first encounter, everyone was thoroughly acquainted with the lineup...