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...market, and its researchers interviewed scores of Volkswagen owners. For a time, the planners considered importing great numbers of Ford-made cars from Britain or Germany instead of building them in North America. Executives discarded that idea in part because they figured that it might provoke Washington to erect import quotas or raise tariffs...
Efforts to erect the bubble were begun in December after a number of delays caused by the weather. The site was a football practice field at Baker Field. The bubble was quickly inflated but trouble came shortly. The anchors had not been securely buried, and several were pulled up by the wind...
...Deterrent. The troops carried on. "The cold is no real bother," claimed Pfc. Timmy Sasser, 17, a mortarman from Dallas who was striving to erect a tent in -40°. Two companies of "aggressors," dropped by parachute, endured the equivalent of -175° F. as they hit the icy prop wash of their aircraft. But the cold was no deterrent to the paratroopers. Mushing ten miles on skis through deep powder snow at 53 below zero, dragging their survival kits on Ahkio sleds, 16 troopers pulled off a brilliant nighttime surprise attack on the headquarters of Brigadier General John...
...ceremony, Pat Bernard offered a brief benediction: "Somewhere there's a place for us. I hope that each of us will go out and hold our heads erect...
...institution of this size and with this purpose can be neutral about its environment. If it should act vigorously to secure land, erect buildings, and shape events, it will impose, however laudable its intentions, its preferences on others who may not share them. If it should be passive and let events take their course, it will implicitly choose a certain kind of environment--one, perhaps, in which all Cambridge slowly becomes like Harvard and M.I.T. until we find that we are no longer an urban university, but one which has allowed there to grow up around itself a kind...