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...spread of Communism. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles summed up this approach when he told LIFE magazine in 1956 that "if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost." Still Eisenhower and Dulles backed away when Soviet tanks rumbled into Budapest later that year to crush the Hungarian uprising. Eisenhower contributed another idea when he invoked the domino theory in 1954 to justify U.S. economic aid to South Viet Nam. The notion that the fall of one nation to Communist control would send adjacent countries toppling like dominoes lined up in a row was used...
...ruled an empire stretching from Cairo to Baghdad. Worshipers bound for the gleaming Umayyad mosque pass by without pausing, and children scamper in a nearby courtyard oblivious of his presence. Yet as the premier potentate of the region, the conqueror of Jerusalem and the fearless warrior who helped crush the Crusaders, Saladin united a divided region and set off a burst of pride among his people that glowed for centuries...
...administration would no doubt like to treat their opposition in the U.S. the way they do in EI Salvador where anyone who breathes a word of protest would be summarily seized, interrogated, imprisoned or "disappeared." The SYL will not, nor should anyone else be intimidated by Epps attempts to crush dissent, political protest and free speech on this campus...
When the actors do relax and let their hair down, the results are delightful. Cobb, who seems to have the most fun on stage, turns in an electric performance as Billy Crocker, a quick-witted entrepreneur with a perpetual crush. As female impersonator, or gleefully mugging across the stage in a two-step, Cobb is, well, the top. Cam Thornley also makes the most of his role as Moon-face Martin, a public enemy who can't move up from his #13 ranking. Under wraps in priest guise, Moon delivers a sidesplitting mock sermon and, later, inspirational song urging Billy...
...team) underwent in 1980 the ordeal of witnessing two Harvard kickoff receivers--whose names I have graciously forgotten--converge, bump and fall down like Keystone Kops while Yale recovered the loose ball, setting up a touchdown. That was a real character-building experience. Watching Yale's unstoppable 1981 squad crush the Crimson falls into the same category. Enduring two shutouts in a row in The Game hardens you in a way 36 courses just can't match...