Word: guarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plane crashes-an obvious but hitherto unheard-of innovation -it has found the "probable cause" (a switchman's error) of a collision in New York City last year. After the foundering of a 60-year-old freighter on Lake Huron in 1966 (28 died), it ordered the Coast Guard to intensify inspection of older ships plying the Great Lakes. Even a proposal to widen the breadth of trucks by six inches (to 102 inches) has not escaped the board's eye; unless highways are correspondingly widened, the accident risk would also increase...
...that it originally held. Even so, because they fear genocide at the hands of the other Nigerian tribes if they are defeated, the Ibo stubbornly fight on. They have managed to hold Port Harcourt, Biafra's main port, and have fought a hard rear-guard action. Frustrated by its failure to win a decisive victory, the federal government has tried to break the Biafrans by stepping up its bombing of their countryside, using Russian-supplied planes and bombs and Egyptian pilots...
...federal money to meet the marchers' demands seems in scarce supply right now, military power to keep them under control is not. Backing up the D.C. Metropolitan Police Force next week is the 2000-member D.C. National Guard, and should more men be required, there are about 8000 soldiers now stationed in the area of the capital. After these, two brigades of the 82nd Airborne division at Fort Bragg are available for Washington duty, and a series of further brigades "in great number" will be available as needed, according to the Pentagon...
...other weekend action, Harvard tied for third behind two strong Coast Guard entries in the Raven Regatta at the Coast Guard Academy...
...their match against Princeton, last Saturday. Yale battled all the way down the ladder before falling, 6-3. Senior Bob McCallum, who wins Rhodes Scholarships and plays starting guard in basketball when he is off the tennis court, led Yale with an extended triumph over the notorious Bobby Goeltz...