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...will be keying on Vic Gatto, and Will Stargel will see a lot more action, perhaps with John Ballantyne and Ray Hornblower doing some backup. But if Zimmerman clicks and the offensive line give him protection. Harvard should do very well in the scoring department. As for the defense--10 fumbles, 3 interceptions, and holding Lafayette to 26 yards on the ground must mean something...
...instance, perform both as a backup to the nation's regular armed forces and as a kind of superstate police force-when both jobs require sophisticated skills and equipment undreamed of even a decade ago? To equip both Guard and Reserve units for modern battlefield conditions would cost no less than $10 billion. Should Guard units be brought more tightly under federal control, so that officers, who now are often deeply involved in state politics, have to meet uniform standards of competence? So far, Congress has resisted any suggestion that it look into these and other Guard problems...
...turn at 150 m.p.h., only to lose control of the car when his right front brake grabbed. The Mark IV caromed off one wall, then another, bounced back and finally spun to a stop in mid-track - directly in the path of two other Fords, Mark II-model backup cars driven by Roger McCluskey and Jo Schlesser. "I didn't know if Mario was still in the car," McCluskey said later, "and I knew I would kill him if I hit him. So I had to put her into the wall." So did Schlesser. Scratch three more Fords...
What is more likely is some sort of federal action. Legislation now pending in Congress would safeguard policyholders against insurance company failures by providing federal backup auto insurance, much like the kind that protects bank depositors. Washington Democrat Warren Magnuson promises that his Senate Commerce Committee will turn upcoming hearings on that legislation into a "root-and-branch investigation" of auto insurance in general...
...development of the first atomic bomb, who in 1944 was recalled from crash building projects in India (the Ledo Road, the pipeline to China) to the even more urgent job of deputy to Manhattan Project Boss General Leslie Groves, sharing vital information that Groves previously held alone, assuring a backup in case of accident, later coordinated operations for the A-bomb drops on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; of cancer; in Reno...