Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Held in the grip of a fanatical socialist party that seeks to wrest from Egypt's Nasser the leadership of the Arab left, Syria has become the epicenter on the seismographic chart of Middle Eastern turmoil. From the Sea of Galilee to the Gulf of Aden, its mortars and machine guns, tanks and terrorists ply their disruptive trade not only against Israel but against the nations of the Arab center and right...
...Harvard wrestling team took a tighter grip on the Ivy League lead with a 24-12 win over Penn Saturday afternoon. Friday, the track team collapsed Northeastern's hopes, 79-30. Saturday night, the Crimson's two-mile relay team set a Harvard record in the Boston Garden K. of C. Meet. Harvard swimmers fell before Dartmouth's powerful squad, 57-38, at the IAB Saturday. Accounts of these events will appear in tomorrow's CRIMSON...
Nothing but Gratitude. Many former nuns remain in the grip of the idealism that led them to the convent-and are seeking new ways to live out this ideal in secular life. One such experiment is the Community of Christian Service in Pueblo, Colo., founded last summer by 13 former Sisters of Notre Dame. The women took private vows of chastity and poverty, live and pray together in a house rented from the diocese. When not pursuing secular occupations-most of them are teachers-they do welfare work among the poor of Pueblo...
...radio and Western Union; bookmakers could hardly be intimidate if the police were not available to intimidate them. If ordinary brokerage firms were encouraged to take accounts and buy and sell bets by telephone for their customers, it is hard to see how racketeers could get any kind of grip on it. And when any restaurant or bar or country club or fraternity house can provide tables and sell fresh decks of cards, it is hard to see how gambling can be monopolized any more than the soft-drink or television business, or any other. Even the criminal-skilled-labor...
...outdoors-minded (notable Jeepniks: Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey and Sargent Shriver), who rig it for such chores as plowing snow or use it for wheeling around a ranch. Recently, however, despite frequent refinements and the introduction of the station wagon and light-truck Jeeps, Kaiser's grip on the domestic market has been weakened by a couple of upstart Jeep-style sports models: International Harvester's Scout and Ford's Bronco. Moreover, the profit margin on sales to the military, still a large chunk of the company's U.S. business, has felt a pinch...