Word: fractionals
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...Cage record, but Army won the race. The Cadets had built up a five-yard lead when Huvelle, Harvard's anchor man, began to close the gap. Huvelle came within inches of catching the Army runner but never quite made it and crossed the finish line a fraction behind...
...outgoing Secretary and the military commanders also clashed last spring over the extent of a troop increase. McNamara was successful in persuading the President to give General Westmoreland only a fraction of the new troops he wanted for 1968, thereby avoiding a call-up of the reserves...
...devised by Dr. Vincent J. Freda and Dr. John G. Gorman of Columbia University, working with Dr. William Pollack of Ortho Research Foundation, the new technique is to vaccinate the mother immediately after the birth of her first Rh-positive child with a blood fraction containing other people's anti-Rh antibodies. These stifle development of a lifelong "active" immunity and in stead provide her system with a short lived "passive" immunity, and her system is far less likely to develop virulent antibodies. So far, reports Ortho, of 825 women treated with the fraction, only one became sensitized...
These students probably know by now that the Harvard Research Contract Office did $55 million worth of business last year with the government. A small fraction of this money for publishable, unclassified research came from the State Department, Defense Department, and the Agency for International Development...
...trained 5,000 young Latin American guerrillas and launched more than 15 different at tempts at revolution in twelve Latin American countries. All of them have failed, though small groups still operate in Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela and Bolivia. Even in these countries, guerrilla bands have been reduced to a fraction of their original strength, and are at best fighting only defensive actions...