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...lunch regularly at the Harvard Club's last vestige of an address, a small suite of rooms in the Princeton Club. It is both a source of embarassment to the traditionalists to have to dine in an Ivy rival's club and a constant reminder that the club should augment its $15,000 endowment and take up residence in its own clubhouse where Harvard gentlemen can sneak a smoke and a quick drink between court cases and bank transactions. But the recent grads, including most of the Harvard Club's one-year-old slate of officers, brush...
...Student Security Patrol was organized three years ago in the hope that students could be hired to augment the University's security and fire prevention programs by walking late-night routes in and around Harvard buildings...
...that "Yugoslavia's ideological and political course has changed." Tito, who will be 83 in May, has grown increasingly worried about his nation's ability to remain united and independent after his death. Thus he has recently ordered an ideological campaign to suppress political unorthodoxy and augment the power of the central party leadership. According to Djilas, Mihajlov "did not fall in line with the new course...
...also in 1972 that King Faisal's agents approached the U.S. asking for help in modernizing the national guard to augment Saudi Arabia's far better equipped regular army of 36,000. In March 1973, the Saudis and the Pentagon agreed to pursue a deal, and that month the State Department sent a memorandum of understanding to the Senate and House foreign affairs committees reporting the arrangement and advising Congress that civilian contractors would be used in part of the package...
...developing countries, ranging in size from China (pop. 800 million) to the South Pacific island state of Nauru (pop. 6,500). They see Caracas as a grand divvying up of the oceans' wealth: a "unique opportunity," as C.R. Pinto of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) puts it, "to augment their meager national resources with none of the unpleasant connotations of 'economic aid.' " They argue that the law Grotius wrote in a maritime era gives an unfair advantage to developed nations in a technological era. Continuation of the status quo, Delegate Makhold Lerotholi of Lesotho protested in Caracas last...