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Though Carter admitted last year that he had "never been a really good athlete," he has proved to be a very conscientious exerciser and one of the most versatile sportsmen ever to serve as Chief Executive. He enjoys activities ranging from bowling and swimming (he can execute an impressive one-and-a-half flip off the diving board at the Camp David pool) to fly-fishing and quail hunting. During his first 20 months in the White House, Carter tended to get most of his exercise through tennis, playing at least five times a week and teaching Rosalynn to play...
Doctrinally, the U.S. officially changed from a "two-and-a-half war strategy" to a "one-and-a-half war strategy" in 1971 when President Nixon began his rapprochement with the Chinese. The older doctrine presented the U.S. with the objective of fighting two-and-a-half wars simultaneously: China to the west, the Soviet Union to the east, and a half war in the Americas, possibly Cuba. Now the China war has been eliminated from doctrine, yet the forces still remain...
...DEPARTMENT'S ten-year history has been rocky. Despite recommendations by two visiting committees that the department receive at least four additional tenured professors, only one-and-a-half faculty members hold tenure in the department. Afro-American Studies is the odd man out, the only department funded solely by Dean Rosovsky's office, with no share in monies gained from donations to the University...
...host of public-relations and personality problems. An appeal for endowment money is bound to be less enticing to prospective donors than a dramatic expansion campaign. On top of that, Harvard suffers from what Kaufmann calls "the curse of endowment"--the tendency for people to look at the one-and-a-half billion dollar endowment and ask why the University needs more money...
Gavin was almost obnoxious in his coolness ("I felt like I was gonna kill it," he said afterwards) as he ripped of an inward one-and-a-half of his own with superior scores to cop the first of two board sweeps for the Crimson...