Word: foundings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Awarded a bye for found one, sophomore, Paul Wideiman powered his way past Cadet Thomas of the Coast Guard Academy, 11-0. The versatile Widerman used a variety of leg rides to frustrate his inferior opponent...
...court found that Sprague had told Mitchell last June "there is no reason not to" allow the CBA to use the house. But, it continues, Sprague later refused the occupancy permit because Higley had told him it had become a "political issue...
...scoops are to be found here; no lids get ripped off anything. Strout watches the men--scarcely a woman makes it into the text--who are running things and wonders about them and about what they will do next. The columns are breezy and interesting, 800 weekly words offering a glance at an issue or a man. It is a measure of Strout's talent that he can use that most pretentious of devices--first person plural--and still display a friendly and approachable, yet always impressive intellect...
...depiction of the horror that we call Vietnam left me emotionally drained. The strongest message reverberating through the movie is the total madness with which the Vietnam War was conducted. In the name of democracy and freedom, which we took upon ourselves to defend anywhere in the world, America found itself mired in the tropical hell of Vietnam--fighting a war with no strategy beyond slaughtering as many Viet Cong as possible, deploying awesomely lethal and destructive technology but without the will to wield it effectively. The war was run by "four star clowns fighting in a four star circus...
...weekly. I wrote at that time a number of articles attacking the practice of "Jim Crow" in the American Army-the vicious discrimination against blacks. I remember meeting A. Phillip Randolph in Washington, where he had gone to see President Roosevelt to obtain a change of that policy, and found that the only place where Randolph and I could eat was in Union Station, since restaurants in the nation's capital would not serve blacks. I wrote about this in The New Leader. Shortly thereafter, I found to my dismay that Goebbels had reprinted and broadcast these pieces to show...