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Miracle number two was Beckwith's victory in the high jump. Bill Flippin, one of Yale's 6 ft., 6 in. jumpers, was unable to compete in this event, but Sam Streibert, the other, stood ready to crush Beckwith. Streibert blanched noticeably when Beckwith cleared 6 ft., 3 in., and collapsed when Beckwith soared cleanly over 6 ft., 4 in., for first place and a Harvard record...
Overnight, the Algiers mutiny threatened to wreck the work of years. For unless he could decisively and quickly crush General Challe's revolt, Algerian independence was not De Gaulle's to promise or deliver...
Four years ago, South Africa's white-supremacist government thought it had figured out just the way to crush black nationalism. Under something called the Suppression of Communism Act, it rounded up 156 prominent opponents of apartheid-mostly black, but including a sprinkling of whites, Indians and coloreds-and charged them all with high treason...
...conservative leader, Barry Goldwater. Young people like myself and people of all ages will and must work for Senator Goldwater's nomination as the Republican presidential candidate in 1964. The "new frontier" of liberalism is pretty old; it is the new frontier of conservatism that will rise and crush the forces of socialism and liberalism...
...arts of brevity and precisions of speech. Many of them are now following the example of the old lady who said, 'How do I know what I think until I hear what I say?' " But Reston had an even better tongue-in-cheek idea for reducing the crush: "Ban all reporters from the New York Times, or if that is too radical, cut the Times down to ten reporters...