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...stony visage, resides a genius of the game. As a player-coach in the 1950s, Landry refined the 4-3 defense, using a slide rule to work out the odds on given plays in given situations. His Cowboys play the most intricately calibrated football?on both offense and defense???ever concocted...
...shook his head in astonishment; the crowd reached farther than eye could see. In neutralist India, Eisenhower invoked the memory of India's saint, implied that Gandhi himself would today favor the dynamics of strength: "America's right, our obligations, for that matter, to maintain a respectable establishment for defense???our duty to join in company with like-thinking peoples for mutual self-defense???would, I am sure, be recognized and upheld by the most saintly men ... In a democracy, people should not act like sheep but jealously guard liberty of action." At his words, countless thousands of Gandhi...
Hands Off. President Hoover has no relish for a fight in which he is doomed to defeat. Last week he was lying low, having abandoned all efforts to try to stop the Legion's stampede for the Bonus. He has a last line of defense???the veto. Secretary of War Hurley had announced he would go to the Portland convention, make a speech if they would let him. Last week the White House disavowed him as its spokesman...
...Khabarovsk, Siberia, four railwaymen of the famed Trans-Siberia Railway were arrested for "gross criminal negligence," swiftly tried and sentenced to "the supreme measure of social defense???execution by shooting...
...Defense??? Dr. Klein defended the Hawley-Smoot Tariff with figures more specific than theoretical. Said he: "In 19 representative countries all over the world, comprising most of our leading customers . . . our share in their import totals last year was almost exactly 20%. . . . During 1924-27 [the U. S. share] averaged 20.7%. . . . Preliminary figures for 1931 show almost exactly the same trend." As to imports, his figures proved that for the first quarter of this year, "whereas the incoming European wares subject to duty fell 33%, . . . those coming in free of duties declined...