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Stout Oak Clubs. Not all of them make it. Of the 250,000 harp-seal pups born in the gulf each year, nearly one-quarter may die at the hands of their natural enemy-man. Their white coats have long been prized for boot and glove trimmings and for fur jackets. In the gulf, a horde of hunters invade the floes on foot, by boat, on ski-equipped planes and in recent years by helicopter. Hundreds of sealers-"swilers" in the Newfoundland dialect-conduct a brief but grimly efficient slaughter. With stout oak clubs they move systematically through the herd...
...hour a week by both the Army and Navy, and will probably be eliminated entirely. The brass is well aware that undergraduates can no longer be made to plod through four years of weekly close-order rituals to master what basic trainees learn in the first few days of boot camp. Admits a high-ranking Army ROTC officer in the Pentagon: "Leadership laboratory may well be the program's worst enemy. It's got to go if we are to survive...
...summer of 1944, the Allied armies had advanced nearly to the hip of the Italian boot. But the going was slow. Through a series of intelligent and tenacious rear-guard actions, German Field Marshal Albert Kesselring exacted a high price in blood and patience for each rocky mile. In addition to the Allies, Kesselring had to deal with ferocious Italian partisans. One group, armed with parachuted weapons, carried on by blasting freight trains and ambushing German patrols in and around Monte Sole, the most prominent peak of a collection of modest Apennines 15 miles south of Bologna. Because Monte Sole...
...Senate, the response was electric. Blacks and white liberals flocked to help him. No matter that his opponent, Endicott Peabody, had been an exceptionally liberal governor, and was the more progressive candidate. Brooke lay back, played the statesman, and won the conservative votes with the liberal support to boot...
Conventional wisdom has it that while the Board of Overseers has the final legal power over university decisions, the Corporation is the real financial planning body of Harvard. This is quite alarming because the five-man Corporation is dominated by super-rich big businessmen and is self-perpetuating to boot...