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...brightest spot in the weekend cavalcade was the 71 1/2 to 63 1/2 victory of the track team over the Yale Varsity at New Haven. Freshman runners fared not so well losing to the Blue first-year men by the narrowest of margins, two points garnered in the last event...
...Senate approval of the Truman proposals for aid to Greece and Turkey launches the United States on a foreign policy clearly motivated by national interest in the narrowest sense of the term. It marks the end of the hope that new ways could be found to meet the old problem of keeping the peace...
Anti-British Revolution. Like most compromises, the resolution satisfied no one completely (it was passed 99-to-52-the narrowest victory the Congress High Command has won in the working committee). Least of all did it please Jai Prakash Narain, 44, head of the Congress Party Socialists, who favors an anti-British revolution, has called Jinnah a British stooge. Last week he told the students and faculty of the Hindu University of Benares: "In the coming fight, Congress will not have the same objects as in past struggles. Congress workers will not go to jail. Instead, they will have strength...
...small solace by now beating out the 10-point edge that the bookies had assigned to State. Thousands of plungers went berserk when Huston scored what might have been the money-winning tally just a split second after the final whistle blew. Crimson loyalty thereby paid off by the narrowest of margins...
From the air, by night or day or through the thickest cloud, it lays open the terrain below like a relief map, showing coastlines, ships, harbors, jetties, mountains, lakes, rivers, bridges, cities. At close range, with the narrowest radar beam, it is possible to see a city's river fronts, avenues, even buildings...