Word: coastguard
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...GOLF April 30 Exetor (away) May 7 Andover (away) 14 MIT (tentative) 21 Yale (away) VARSITY SAILING April 3 Yale (Dual) at New London 17 Bowdoin (Dual) at Bowdoin April 19 Oberg Trophy at MIT 24 N.E. Champs--Elimination "B" at MIT May 1 Sharpe Trophy at Providence 7 Coastguard Bowl (N.E. Championships) at New London 8 N.E. Consolation at MIT 14 Owen Trophy (Ivy League Championships) at Edgewood, Rhode Island 21 Boston Dinghy Club Cup at MIT 28 USCGA (Dual) (tentative) 23 National Championships at Michigan (tentative) FRESHMAN SAILING April 17 Yale (away) 24 Octagonals at New London
Probe Yourself. At Gordonstoun last week, on the bleakly beautiful Morayshire coast of Scotland, 300 youngsters were busy manning coastguard lookouts, spotting forest fires, working at the village smithy, and striving mightily to win badges for moral and physical fitness. Headmaster Hahn is sure that his schools have found William James's "moral equivalent of war." Says Hahn: "One of the mysterious currents making for war ... is the longing of the young to probe their reserves of ... endurance, daring and resourcefulness." One who probed himself: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, onetime Guardian (head boy) of Gordonstoun. At the Hahn...
...population of 125,000,000, Latin America can muster a potential man power of 12,000,000. Fifteen of the 20 countries have air forces. The aggregate Latin-American navy consists of five battleships, six cruisers, 32 destroyers, 20 submarines, a scattering of gunboats, minelayers, river-patrol boats and coastguard cutters. But only Argentina, Brazil and Chile can patrol their own shores. . Closest Latin-American country to the U. S. is Mexico, whose west-coast ports and Tampico on the Gulf are possible spots of invasion. Its first line of defense is the U. S. Navy, for Mexico has only...