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While McNamara was calling for additional U.S. muscle, something of an uproar developed over how the U.S. has been fighting the air war in South Viet Nam. News dispatches from Viet Nam reported that at least two American pilots had died when the wings of their prop-driven T-28 planes ripped off. In Washington, Chairman Carl Vinson of the House Armed Services Committee demanded an explanation from McNamara of whether the U.S. had been using obsolescent aircraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Peanut Air Force | 5/22/1964 | See Source »

...team has chalked up wins over Deerfield Academy, an always strong prop school power, M.I.T., Brown, Tufts, and Holy Cross...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: LACROSSE | 5/5/1964 | See Source »

...Vickers, an experienced scrum half, will return to that position. Soccer player Sandy Whitman, out for his first season of rugby, will fill the hooker's slot. Doug Hall, Dick Schulman, Whit Lee, and freshman football player Steve Diamond play prop...

Author: By Susan M. Rogers, | Title: Rugby Club Strengthened By Gridiron Conversions | 3/25/1964 | See Source »

Squash (5-1)--After losing its opener to Andover, 5-2, the team has recorded five victories, three of them shutouts. Tomorrow, however, it faces Doorfield Academy, perhaps the strongest of the prop school teams. Strength at the lower positions has improved the team's chances of victory in this contest as well as in a return match against Andover later this month...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: MIDSEASON | 2/4/1964 | See Source »

Teaching fellows unquestionably deserve a better deal from the University and probably need an outside prop to obtain it in the form of more pay for less work, for the Corporation has an over riding bargaining advantage as the greater of degrees. The gracious and insulting argumentum ad bominom which is contained in the report of the Overseers' Committee and the undesirability of the "senior Faculty person" whom the Committee seeks to set over them, decract from the attractiveness of its later recommendations...

Author: By David T.T. Frest, | Title: A TEACHING FELLOW'S VIEW | 12/11/1963 | See Source »

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