Word: fallbacks
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...sought the Rindge Tech auditorium as a fallback in case Harvard refused SDS the use of its facilities for the convention, Anthony S. Kroch, a graduate student at MIT and a member of the MIT SDS, said yesterday...
...battalions of North Vietnamese troops that were probing Laotian defenses around Long Cheng intended to go. Would they overrun the base and keep moving right to the plains just north of Vientiane? A major push seemed several days off at least, but U.S. advisers and government defenders prepared a fallback position at Ban Son, 20 miles south of the base. Meanwhile, U.S. warplanes continued to bomb Communist supply routes across northern Laos. Despite U.S. estimates that the air attacks have inflicted 20% casualties on Communist units, the bombing has failed to stem the tide of supplies...
...leaders agreed to leave troops at the present 500,000 level for more than a year, although 10% were willing to keep them there for as long as five years. Nor are many more willing to tolerate what is reported to be the President's fallback position on troop reductions. Only 27% of the public and 25% of the leaders agreed to keeping a substantially lower 200,000-troop level in Viet Nam beyond next fall. By much the same proportions, Americans rejected the long-term use of a mixed force of volunteers and draftees. Just...
...past week. Ordway. a two-year veteran at scrumhalf. will be passing to deceptive Mario Small at fly. and Greg Sandomisrsky will team with Verdi DiSesa at the wing three-quarters. Jamie Plunkett and Bucky Hayes will play on the wings. and All-American Joe Daly will be at fallback...
...never really left the center of U.S. power, he is indisputably in an historical retreat. The big change came with the waves of migration from Europe in the 19th century, when many of his citadels-the big cities-were wrested from his political control. In a quiet fallback, the Wasps founded gilded ghettos-schools and suburbs, country clubs and summer colonies...