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...that of a home-defense force-and when the National Guard is outraged, Congress is sure to hear about it. Guard leaders on such occasions can be counted on to identify themselves with the original Minute Men, point with pride to their organization's long history, and cinch their argument with a slogan, e.g., "There will always be a National Guard." This week the slogans were falling like raindrops...
...Funsters have a good chance to take the "A" title, they are a cinch to run off with the "B" championship. The only team which looks as if it might give Dunster a fight is Kirkland. Kirkland took three of its first four, but then was blasted by Dunster...
...University of Illinois had to do last week to cinch an invitation to the Rose Bowl was to defeat Wisconsin. Underdog Wisconsin, beaten in the Rose Bowl last year (and ineligible as a repeater to return this season), had nothing to gain but prestige. It turned out to be quite an incentive...
Organizer Ulbricht, it seemed, had saddled the cow. The more Moscow milked it, the more he tightened the cinch belts. There was a Two Year Plan, then a Five Year Plan. Steel production went up 500,000 tons above the prewar average for Eastern Junker Germany (to about 1,700,000 tons a year). Electric power output climbed 50% in two years. New hard-coal fields were opened, chemicals output went UP 30% and East Germany seemed on the way to becoming the most important industrial area in Europe after the Ruhr...
...extrovert. Only a small group of undergraduates can claim more than a mild acquaintance with him. In fact, his tendency to stay apart has given one colleague the false impression that his favorite amusement in the exercise line is swimming. A friend on the team says it's a cinch that he's one of the best swimmers on the faculty...