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...fewer than 68 of the 109 athletes who tried out for the team last spring were non-Nebras-kans. The Huskers do have Nebraskan Bob Churchich playing quarterback, but he has to alternate with Chicago's Fred Duda. Another Chicagoan, 240-lb. Tackle Walt Barnes, is the bulwark of a defense that so far has limited its opponents to 195 yds. per game. Cleveland's Frank Solich may be the smallest fullback (at 5 ft. 8 in. and 158 Ibs.) in major-college football, but he has gained an average of 5.5 yds. per carry. Split End Freeman...
...opposing the change with every resource at its command--a good indication that supporters of the civic association feel they have a great deal to lose if PR is tossed out. A look at recent voting figures tells why. The bulwark of the CCA's support lies in Wards 7 and 8--the Brattle Street area--and in city elections, CCA candidates poll only about 40 to 45 per cent of the total vote. With PR, that's good enough to elect respectable delegations to both the Council and the school committee. Under a plurality, only the strongest...
...years ago, Britain helped lash together a sprawl of Asian real estate into a federation called Malaysia. It was born in the high hope of providing economic unity, political stability, and a bulwark against expansion by Red China or Indonesia. But there was a fatal flaw that doomed the scheme from the start. Last week Singapore, fifth largest port in the world, broke away, and once again a British-backed regional federation was in tatters.- The flaw was a clash of peoples, of religions, of languages, of cultures. Put in the simplest terms, the Malays-largely rural, uneducated and unenterprising...
...ashes of Jawaharlal Nehru have long since disappeared into the silt of the Ganges, carrying with them the faint shadow of the rose he always wore in his lapel. Gone with the Pandit is the image of India as a moral bulwark of the "nonaligned" world, a pious mediator between the great powers. Gone with the jaunty jodhpurs and preachy pronouncements is the hope that India might soon be an economic success. Gone, too, are the pride and the confidence that inspired India in its formative years. India without Nehru stands dispirited and disillusioned, a land without elan where...
...made for good reasons and sustained for the same reasons." One of the reasons, offered Brzezinski, is to keep Red China from gaining supremacy in Asia. "A great many Asian nations," he said, "see a major interest for themselves in an American continued presence in Viet Nam as a bulwark." As for the notion that the Viet Nam war is a civil war, Pauker said: "This is aggression from North Viet Nam, but carefully staged so as to make Communist revolution ary war appear as a spontaneous grassroots revolt...