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This is all to say I think the Crimson can still win the Ivy League championship. There are problems--primarily the Dartmouth and Princeton teams--but Harvard has shown enough promise, in its erratic way, to lend substance to dreams of future conquest...
...them. "The Russians know that you have to put somebody in space with whom you can identify, so they send up a farmer's son. He doesn't do a darned thing, but he's there. It's inherent to the concept of conquest that man be a part...
...Russian astronauts go to the moon together. "Why," asked the President, "should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Surely we should explore whether the scientists and astronauts of our two countries - indeed of all the world - cannot work together in the conquest of space, sending some day in this decade to the moon not the representatives of a single nation, but of all our countries...
...machismo is linked with valor, courage, honor and dignity, but too often it is more gun-toting brag than performance. Machos insist that the women they marry be virgins, and they will defend the honor of their sisters to the death-all of which makes their endless tales of conquest a statistical impossibility. In industry, machismo makes business a one-man show; a boss makes decisions, wrong or right, almost in spite of his advisers. Internationally it can raise a Latin negotiator to his full height with a proud rejection of proffered aid -even though his country must have...
...Green-Eyed Millionairess." They met at a Fabian Society gathering, and though Charlotte was well-bred and well-read, it was her wealth that seems to have piqued Shaw's imagination. G.B.S., who always took pains to keep each of his old "enchantresses" informed of every new conquest, was soon taunting Ellen Terry with his "green-eyed Irish millionairess." "I think I could prevail on her," he wrote the actress, "and then I shall have ever so many hundreds a month for nothing. Would you ever in your secret soul forgive me?" Though he was bombarding Charlotte with passionate...