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"Those kinds our there are not going to crack." Harvard Coach Frank McLaughlin said of his cagers after the game, "they're hard-nosed...I said to them that they hustled too hard for 36 minutes to let it slip away through their fingers. We knew that we had the...
Despite Thayer's claims of innocence, the embarrassing charges made his Defense Department post untenable. His departure leaves a large hole high up in the Pentagon hierarchy. Thayer had publicly criticized the military's waste and cost overruns; privately, he liked to brag that he could cut the...
When Paul Thayer became Deputy Secretary of Defense a year ago, he brought a hard-nosed businessman's approach to the Pentagon bureaucracy. As chairman of both the LTV Corp., a Dallas-based energy, steel and aerospace conglomerate, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, he had complained about wasteful...
Colette's preparatory sketches for her masterworks Chéri (1920) and The Last of Chéri (1926) show how hard she labored to achieve an effect of lapidary simplicity and ease. The fledgling gigolo Chéri made his first appearance as a runny-nosed boy called...
Meaningful arms reduction is not going to take place until we adopt a "bilateral, verifiable freeze." By freezing the nuclear arms race now, we can sit down with the Soviets and look at what we have, not what we will have or might have. But if we continue to be...