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...international police force in history. Its scope, of course, was and still is limited; but its significance, if it succeeds in Sinai and Suez, is broad indeed. As the armed representatives of the will of the U.N., the few thousand soldiers now in Egypt's desert could become the nucleus of a permanent U.N. Police Force--a force which would be an important instrument in giving U.N. decisions the strength...
...leader of this experienced nucleus is Captain Ike Canty, the team's high scorer last season (324 points) and its one-man rebounder. Canty says he is 6-4, but he actually looks more like 6-3, and has difficulty in playing the pivot position against taller opponents...
This was supposed to be a rebuilding year for Princeton, which won the unofficial Ivy League title last fall. The Tigers lost all but one of last year's starting backfield, but kept the nucleus of a line that is strong by Ivy standards...
...college." Over a year elapsed before any further steps were taken, but late in 1637 the first Overseers purchased a slip of land from Goodman Peyntree on the southern edge of Cowyard Row. (The present Cambridge Common is all that remains of this great cow pasture.) Around this nucleus the Yard slowly expanded until reaching its present size in the first half of the eighteenth century...
...target came a secondary beam of assorted atomic debris. The particles with a negative charge, separated from the rest by the Bevatron's strong magnetic field, were mostly mesons. Among them were a few antiprotons (negative protons) formed when the Bevatron's powerful projectiles smashed an atomic nucleus...