Word: naval
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems not too much worse than the previous year's version, but turning out a daily sheet became a tougher proposition as Harvard shrank to 60 per cent of its former enrollment. David M. Little '18, the future Secretary of the University, acted as President while stationed at the Naval Training Station in Cambridge, and reach of the rest of the stall squeezed, in work on I'm Crimson after a day of drilling. No great advances in journalism came out of The Crimson during the war years, but the fact that it survived was enough of an accomplishment...
...hell), it got so quiet in the little red-brick building on the one-way cowpath, 14 Plympton Street, you could hear a split-infinitive drop. Most of the Crimeds had gone off to the wars, leaving behind them something they'd started as a weekly to serve naval and military personnel, something they now hoped would be able to publish the news of the whole University twice a week; something called the Harvard Service News...
...that time Mintoff was trying to renegotiate a seven-year contract covering support payments for the modest British air and naval force that has remained on Malta since the island was granted sovereignty in 1964. Whitehall was paying $12 million a year; Mintoff demanded $72 million and delivered so many eviction ultimatums that he earned the nickname "Deadline Dom." Britain refused to give in to Mintoff's demands. Instead, Whitehall flew special demolition teams into Malta to dismantle the British bases, and it bundled up wives and children and deserted a post where Englishmen have served since Napoleonic days...
...exactly increased his popularity with the 330,000 Maltese by threatening to make them repatriate investments kept abroad, including an estimated $500 million in the United Kingdom. Moreover, Malta is no longer the legendary unsinkable aircraft carrier of World War II. The only strategic reason Britain maintains naval and air groups there is that by doing so it denies Malta's bases to East bloc forces...
Neither status nor success made any significant change. Truman's idea of a holiday was to spend a week in the VIP quarters at the Key West naval base and do a little fishing. He still took his early-morning walks (at the military quicktime pace of 120 steps a minute), to the distress of Secret Service men and reporters trying to stay awake and keep up with him. When a Washington critic said some unpleasant things about the singing talent of his daughter Margaret ("my baby"), he dashed off a letter which said, in part: "I have just...