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Almost every barrier the U.S. meets abroad is matched by wrangling at home. The Agriculture and Treasury Departments, which bear the brunt of the surplus costs, will go for almost any scheme to move commodities into the market place and lessen the load...
Cappy Cappon, coach of Princeton's Ivy League championship team, agreed with Wilson that there will be more zone defense played next year, but he said "I don't think the game will be affected very much." He expected the wider lane to lessen the tall man's rebounding advantage of the offensive backboards, but to increase his edge off the defensive boards...
ATOMIC WEAPONS LESSEN WAR RISK...
...British want the Chinese Communists to have Quemoy and Matsu because they think the transfer of these islands will lessen the danger of a war of encounter. They want blue water between the Communists and what the U.S. is committed to defend. Actually, they would not be sorry to see Formosa fall because that would put still more blue water between the U.S. and the Communists...
Another change would put stricter limitations on the movement of the linesmen to discourage the "sucker shift." And, to lessen the number of short kicks, the use of a three inch tee may be permitted instead of the present one inch...