Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What if? is history's forever teasing and unanswerable question. What if Marshal Ney's troops had not sat eating lunch before Waterloo while the Duke of Wellington retreated to safety? Etcetera. To all such historic posers must now be added questions raised by a retired British group captain named Frederick Winterbotham. What if a Pole working in a German factory had not defected to the Allies in 1938, bringing with him the first construction details of the Nazis' coding machine, called Enigma? And what if British cryptographers had not eventually cracked Enigma's supposedly unbreakable...
...Colby aide who asked not to be named said yesterday he thought Colby had canceled his talk at Duke because of "his heavy schedule." Colby is "up to his gunwales in work," the aide said, denying that Colby had canceled his talk because of campus protests directed against the CIA and himself...
...Chronicle account quotes Kahn as saying he thought the possibility of protests at Duke during Colby's speech were "of secondary importance," to Colby's decision to cancel the talk...
Kahn told the Chronicle the speech would only have been open to Duke law students because "there would be too much of a crowd," but he denied the talk was closed to keep out protestors...
Colby, who could not be reached to comment on his cancelation of the Duke Law Forum talk, told a reporter after the Harvard protest that he did not mind the demonstration. "It's part of life," he said