Word: cracked
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Well, at least Northeastern should be satisfied. The Huskies, after much clamoring, finally got a crack at Harvard's superb varsity nine yesterday, and, as was to be expected, were soundly beaten, 7-4. The game, which was played dangerously late in the Reading Period, (and at the absurd hour of 4:15 p.m.) proved nothing except that the Crimson is far and away the best club in the Hub area, possibly including the Red Sox. That much we already knew...
...soldiers and carried off the brand-new U.S. rifles they had just been issued. In turn, the Vietnamese army reported 20 Viet Cong slain in the central lowlands. Before leaving for home, McNamara heard that Australia's Prime Minister Robert Menzies has agreed to send a few crack Australian jungle troops to South Viet Nam to support the U.S. in checking the advance of Communism...
...Conservatives? Last week Colombia's voters reaffirmed the truce by electing as Lleras' successor. Conservative Guillermo León Valencia, 53, with an overwhelming 1,643,020 votes. Valencia is a far different politician from the patient, persuasive Lleras. A fiery orator, flowery poet and crack pistol shot, he once stood up to a dictator's besieging troops armed with a .32 revolver, and by bluster and reputation he drove the soldiers away. Anti-Communist and pro-U.S., he puts his faith in the Alliance for Progress and in his own popularity among Colombians. A huge...
Changed Concept? Besides drawing a precision map of the solar system, Dr. Lowther's artificial planet may get a crack at even more interesting jobs. Since its orbit will be slightly but measurably disturbed by the gravitational attraction of all the other passing planets, its waverings can be used to check the mass of individual planets. It may also detect large meteors that chance to streak close by. It may point to far-out, undiscovered planets, or even to dark, invisible stars. Its most radical use, Dr. Lowther figures, will be to check the inverse-square law, which says...
Divided Rule. Donner signaled the way he would run the company by picking as president crack engineer John F. Gordon, 62, previously vice president in charge of the Body and Assembly Group, Donner and Gordon have never set down on paper any formal division of authority, and feel no need to. "I don't spend the hours on styling that he does," explains Donner. "He does not spend the hours on finance and labor relations that I do. In some areas like distribution we are both active." In everything they work closely together, spending many evenings together over dinner...