Word: enormouse
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Laos. It was considered important to the U.S. that a country remain friendly and not be taken over by hostile forces. Rather than use our military force or an enormous political effort, you try to influence some key people and key political groups. The Laos operation cost substantial amounts but...
From the street, the effect is disorienting; someone has deposited the set from The Guns of Navarone on the Washington Mall. It is a squat cylinder four stories high and 231 ft. across, sheathed in granite aggregate the color of flushed elephant skin. The outside wall is blank except for...
Europeans call it the arms deal of the century-and they may well be right. Some time this year, Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands and Norway-four NATO nations acting as a consortium -will buy more than 350 new jet fighters to replace warplanes bought in the 1960s. France and the...
Traditionally, the alumni at Harvard have preferred to follow the leads set by the administration and support most decisions that are made--even though they may disagree personally. Douglas Mercer '40, former vice chairman of the Harvard College Fund, praises the enormous loyalty of Harvard alumni. "Over the years if...
Francis M. Pipkin moved this month into a University Hall office that doesn't have a telephone yet; he says a phone should be installed as soon as he gets settled in. Pipkin, who Dean Rosovsky appointed in June as the first associate dean of the Faculty for Harvard and...