Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon White House had wanted the FBI and CIA to be both more aggressive and more malleable to presidential control. Ironically, Watergate has brought both agencies under closer congressional scrutiny. The likely result will be a curtailment of their activities and of White House control. Balancing the priorities of individual liberties and national security has always posed a problem for free nations, but the Watergate scandal suggests the scale is now out of tilt. Indeed, the entire internal and external security apparatus of the United States seems due for review...
...mile and discus should be closer than I had anticipated," he said. "Yale's kids beat our men in those events last weekend at the Heptagonals...
McCurdy remains optimistic despite the injuries. "If our injured men can't perform, we still think we can win, only it will be closer," he said...
...sketches included in the show evidence a wonderfully simple, soft and controlled line that comes closer to clearly modern style than anything in the paintings The show's excellent catalogue includes an essay by Phyllis Hattis locating the position of these drawings in the movement of early modern art. One of the finest of the drawings is actually a collage composed of several delicately drawn figures cut out, pasted onto a larger sheet of paper, and set in relation by a few background lines...
...Saturday the Tigers made it happen, nipping Harvard by .4 seconds and insuring themselves a trip to Henley this summer. The Crimson J.V. went under to Princeton by an even closer .2 second margin. And the only bright spot in the day for Harvard was its frosh crew's victory by .4 second over the Tiger Freshmen...