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Harvard was unable to reach base in the fifth, and took the field after a one-two-three inning MIT took full advantage of three hits, including a base-clearing triple by center fielder Anderson, as well as two Crimson errors, to erupt for three runs in the bottom of the fifth...
Kennedy's 1000 days in office would be a halting struggle to implement liberal ideas. Kennedy would not take the lead he had promised on Civil Rights, for he feared his Black-white coalition in the South would descend into turmoil. But finally, when turmoil did erupt, he would be forced to take action, it had become politically acceptable to advocate slow social change in the South...
...been studying the pandas in their native habitat since December 1980. Unfortunately, by a curious botanical twist, a staple of their diet, the arrow bamboo, is now undergoing one of its periodic blossomings. When this happens, once every 45 or 50 years, a whole mountainside of bamboo may erupt in flowers, scatter seeds and then perish. The bamboo will regrow in a few years to sufficient size (perhaps 3 ft. high) to provide fresh food for the pandas. Meanwhile, they must scramble for other food...
...tied down" significant fractions of America's combat-ready forces. Even apart from any consideration of right or wrong, then, the Administration must ask itself-are these actions worth it? Are they high enough on our scale of priorities to merit such involvement? And, should yet another crisis erupt elsewhere that was judged to be more vital, could we meet the challenge...
...isolated example of nature on the rampage. Geologists, however, have long known that the restless mountain was only one of many dormant volcanoes in the American West. Although some have not stirred in tens of thousands of years, there is no assurance that one or more will not erupt again, perhaps in the near future. As scientists say, "There is no such thing as a dead volcano...