Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coach Bill McCurdy attributed the Crimson victory to Burns, who grabbed a five-yard lead on the first leg. "Both Shaw and Baker took advantage of the early lead and both had fast first quarters (under 52.0)," he said. "Our boys were so jazzed up to do this that the other teams just couldn't catch...
...Communists also have a new abundance of the weapon that does the most to change the war's balance on a strictly man-to-man basis. It is the AK-47, another Soviet refinement of German weaponry. The AK-47 is so rugged, dependable, and fast-firing that it, in effect, practically turns an ordinary rifleman into a machine gunner. Some firearm experts consider it superior to the U.S. M16, which fires a smaller bullet and has an unfortunate tendency to jam. Though the AK-47 is heavier and heats up faster than the M16, U.S. combat troopers sometimes...
Egal, a portly, fast-talking merchant's son who was educated in Britain, has called a halt to the guerrilla war that Somali tribesmen have waged for years over disputed land with neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia. He has dismissed 3,000 troops from his 11,000-man army and put the rest to work part-time clearing land and building roads. He has asked to join the newly formed East African Economic Community (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda) because he feels that Somalia has a better chance of building a viable economy by cooperating with Black Africa rather than with...
Even before the latest gains, Penn students had acquired two instruments of self-expression that are fast becoming commonplace: they annually issue hardhitting critiques of courses and their professors, and they initiated a "free university" to take non-credit courses of their own choosing...
There have been incidents-particularly growing out of the increased stop-and-frisk activity. One 17-year-old Negro was allegedly stripped to his underwear and dangled by his heels from a bridge by two policemen who accused him of carrying a knife. Headley acted fast; both were dismissed the next day and last week were indicted by a federal grand jury. "These men abused their authority," says Headley, "and I won't stand for that...