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Harvard got off to a good start at a rapid 40 strokes a minute rate. By the Remenham Barrier, the one-third marker, the lightweights had grabbed a quarter-length advantage, and stroke Mark Hoffman was understroking Thames. At Fawley, the eight increased their lead to half a length, and continued to understroke the heavier, older British crew...
...arrived. Its gist: 1) a strong re-establishment of Pan-American unity, with Latin America's importance to the U.S. and the free world clearly emphasized; 2) a ten-year program, coordinated by a central agency, to raise Latin American productivity and living standards, thereby throw up a barrier against Communist penetration...
...reach all the way to the sun and could well thwart mortal designs on outer space. Within minutes of launch, Explorer IV was wheeling with the other moons, 170 miles up at the lowest, 1,400 miles up at the highest, sending back vital intelligence on this cosmic barrier...
...Copper, now being produced at 950,000 tons annually, has an excess capacity of about 350,000 tons; moreover, producers hold high inventories of refined copper. Government guarantees for 120,000 tons have a ceiling price of 28? per lb., which will probably act as a barrier to any major price rise...
...Piper's collection of jazz and rock 'n' roll records rivals her classical music stock. American culture hits Britain "head-on," she said, "with no softening language barrier." She finds that American plays and motion pictures are more frank and to the point than their British counterparts...