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...heart to its limit. The defense, magnificent throughout the year, held the Tiger squad to only one tally. Again and again, as it appeared the Tiger tide might sweep past the tiny nine points the offense had amassed, the defense came up with a play to plug up the dam. A goal-line stand, a key interception by Tommy Wynne, and a come from behind chase down tackle by Mike Georges were the highlights. But the Princeton game gave the pessimists something to talk about "George Lalich can't pass," was the new phrase. But at least mention...
...BEWARE! The SOCIETY has lerned you Milionairs are Going to Give a Show Against the Brother-hood of the Oppressed. STOP Your Show or You Will be DAM SORRY...
...struck back in a manner obviously intended to impress the Egyptians with a display of its capability, without exacerbating big-power fears of a new war. Tel Aviv announced that its commandos had penetrated deep into Egypt, cutting a power line and damaging a bridge and the Nag Hammadi dam 270 miles south of Cairo...
...production and more than Sweden's. Petrochemical plants are rising at Ploeşti, next to Rumania's oil wells, which until recently constituted the country's only significant industry. In conjunction with Yugoslavia, the Rumanians have nearly completed the Danube's largest dam, for hydroelectric power, at a point where the river foams through the Iron Gate gorge in the Carpathian Mountains. Within two years, Rumania's expanding machine-tool industry should become an important source of exports...
...many crises of the environment, plans for the $11.2 million dam went unprotested until nearly too late. In 1967, the conservationists went to work. That archchampion of the wilderness, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, led hikers through the gorge to publicize its impending fate. "The building of dams is one of the great obsessions of America," he said, "but engineering values are not what we live...