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...that time 300 people were sitting-in and Ansara believed he had the Administration over a barrel. "What the hell are they going to do? They are powerless in the face of such wide-spread support from students," he said...
...whispered the man with the binoculars. The man with the rifle checked through his telescopic sight and nodded in agreement. Then both men tested the wind. About 5 m.p.h., they decided. The rifleman adjusted his sight. Slowly he stretched out into a prone firing position; he rested his rifle barrel on his helmet and sighted through the scope, allowing just enough Kentucky windage to compensate for the breeze. Then he began the gentle, steady trigger pull of the expert marksman. The exact moment of firing came as a surprise-which it often does when a good rifleman has squeezed...
...Blackmail." But this time Carl Hayden was apparently a mite impatient. Once Aspinall was out of town, Hayden blandly asked his colleagues on the Appropriations Committee if they saw anything wrong with attaching the Central Arizona Project as a rider to the $4.7 billion public-works bill-the "pork barrel" package on its way to the Senate floor. Of course not, said the committee...
...happened and hotfooted it back to Washington. How could the House accept the Central Arizona Project as part of the public-works bill? he asked. The House was supposed to be trying to cut expenditures. But then, how could Congressmen vote down a bill containing all those pork-barrel projects so dear to their hearts? If Hayden's Arizona rider stayed on the bill, the Congress could be caught up in a ruckus that might last until Christmas. Most people would probably blame Aspinall...
Harvard uses "long-gain" formations simply because it does not have the players to do anything else. In recent years Harvard has not had a bruising halfback who can barrel up the middle for large hunks of yardage: its running talent has been concentrated in a bunch of quick, shifty, and relatively light halfbacks...