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Sources spoke of a widening chasm splitting the Yard between University Hall--Dunlop's bailiwick--and Massachusetts Hall--where Bok's fleet of young vice presidents and special assistants is based...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Rosovsky Takes Over as Dean of the Faculty | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

...tune-up, zeroing in with the unfaltering regularity of a computerized missle, pursuing the ultimate target, the final goal, the quintessential achievement with the relentlessness of that missle, propelling up and down his 25-yard aquatic domain throughout the year, established himself as the premier swimmer in the Harvard fleet of standout mermen. Yntema, who ignored with an indifferent composure the frenetic excitement of Harvard's drive to a share of the Eastern League swimming title, eyeing with an unvarying determination his singular objective, refusing to be distracted for the vaguest moment by the hullabaloo swirling around him as Harvard...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Where Have All the Heroes Gone? | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

...have warned that they would support the truckers' strike if the army acts. By week's end, Allende had alerted army troops in all of Chile's 25 provinces to be ready to move against the strikers. The truckers remained defiant. Said one owner of a fleet of three trucks: "If the army comes, we will burn our trucks and run. Then we will start a Maquis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE,SOUTH KOREA: Truckers in Revolt | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

Radford became a naval flyer after serving in World War I and commanded the Pacific Fleet during the Korean War. A renowned naval strategist, he supported President Eisenhower's belief that the Communist threat to America could be met only with the coun-terthreat of massive nuclear retaliation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 27, 1973 | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

Iran already has an awesome arsenal. Since 1965 it has spent more than $3 billion in the U.S. and Europe on mostly sophisticated arms, including 70 Phantom F-4 jet fighters, 400 tanks, a destroyer, a couple of frigates and what is probably the biggest fleet of Hovercraft (50) in the world. But the Shah, who makes the final decision on all such equipment, wants more. Currently prepared to spend $2 billion or so a year, he has on order 100 F-5E supersonic fighters, another 100 Phantoms, 700 helicopters, 750 tanks, eight destroyers and four frigates. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Policeman of the Persian Gulf | 8/6/1973 | See Source »

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