Word: potentes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fensing (0-2)--The team opened against two perennially strong powers, C.C.N.Y. and Columbia, and lost by scores of 13-9 and 17-10 respectively. More experience and slightly less potent opponents should bring some victories...
...throughout most of the meet, the team rallied to topple one of the strongest prep school swimming powers. This year's team is good-already former Australian Olympian Neville Hayes has broken the University record in the 200-yard butterfly--but, unfortunately, Princeton and Yale freshman swimmers are also potent and should provide some stiff opposition...
Certainly Glenn will need strength. Young has served notice that he intends to fight. Whoever wins that encounter will probably face Robert Taft Jr. in the general election. And Taft, who possesses a politically potent name and who has served his political apprenticeship in both the Ohio legislature and the U.S. Congress, may be even tougher to beat than outer space...
...protests that the contract would give the Teamsters the power of a nationwide strike that might amount to a stranglehold on the nation's economy, Hoffa offered sly reassurance. Such a national strike, he snorted, would only deprive him of his most potent weapon -playing off one employer against another by striking some while allowing others to operate...
Matched Blood. For a week, Davis was dosed with three potent drugs that suppress the body's natural tendency to reject any "foreign" protein. In Tulane University's colony of primates, hematologists checked the blood group of Adam, an 80-lb. chimpanzee about seven years old. It was type A, like Davis'. On the appointed day, Davis and Adam lay in operating rooms on opposite sides of the street. At the School of Medicine, Adam was anesthetized, and his temperature was dropped to 90°. Then a surgeon removed the animal's two kidneys along with...