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...case for the MX missile before the Armed Services Committee last week. Never once did Weinberger lose his temper or raise his voice. And no matter how heated the interrogation, Weinberger did not budge a millimeter from his position. "Once his mind is made up, he is impossible to bend," says a close associate at the Pentagon. "He is a gentle man with a rod of iron in his back...
...Crimson's only disappointments of the day. Brown's Shawn Robinson edged out Herberich to take the 400 Herberich had led the race from the very start, followed by Harvard freshman Chris Alderidge, and Robinson But, when they rounded the last bend. Robinson put on a burst of speed and overtook Alderidge and caught up to Herberich, thrusting out his chest to break the ribbon first...
While the lack of Black students and faculty "does not make the Kennedy School a hostile atmosphere, it does not make it a welcome atmosphere for Black," Godley said. The result, he added, is that fewer Blacks will come to the School. The K-School must bend over backward to avoid this "Catch-22" situation, he added...
Woodrow Wilson's diamond-bright belief of peace through world order reached and inspired the farthest corners of civilization. But he was frozen in the amber of his vision, and would not bend in the legislative struggle to bring the U.S. into the League of Nations...
...department may often suggest that another bend its standards," he adds "But those suggestions don't go very...