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After the landings, four days of maneuvers were scheduled in the mock war. While U.S. officers were interested in seeing how troops of the two nations would mesh in such a situation, the main point had already been made. It could hardly be missed either by the Soviet military strategists to the north or by Red Chinese forces threatening nearby India to the east: the U.S. is equipped to put a lot of troops anywhere, anytime-and fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: A Lesson for Sunland | 4/17/1964 | See Source »

...main difference between the Mathematics and Applied Mathemathics programs," Birkhoff said, "is that students learn to prove theorems in math, but will learn to use them in Applied Math, will all due respect to rigor...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: Applied Math Will Become College Field | 4/14/1964 | See Source »

...addition to unbalanced scoring, Harvard's main trouble so far has been inability to clear the ball smoothly. The return of Chip Gray, who did not make the trip south, should help the defense in that regard. Another letterman who played his first game of the season against M.I.T. Wednesday is midfielder Joe Barton, now recovered from a separated shoulder. He could make the third midfield a scoring threat...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: Crimson Stickmen to Battle Cornell In Decisive League Opener Today | 4/11/1964 | See Source »

More discriminating moviegoers will see at once that this 2nd century Rome is really that special, insular world of the cinema spectacular, a mise en scene now as familiar as Main Street. Producer Samuel Bronston constructed a mammoth Roman fortress and filled 250 acres of a Spanish plain with a full-scale reproduction of the Roman Forum as it existed circa A.D. 180. Bronston's Rome is patently too fabulous to have been built in a day, but it doesn't look lived-in either. Director Anthony Mann makes it a picture-book setting aswarm with extras behaving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Foul Play in the Forum | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

Lighting in two of the College's main lecture halls is so weak that it violates a Massachusetts law, a fact sheet issued by the Harvard Council on Undergraduate Affairs disclosed this week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lighting in 2 Main Lecture Halls Found Weaker Than Law Allows | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

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