Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thank you for your effort to present a true picture of Thailand. While it is true that we have survived a few catastrophes by "shrewdly" siding with the stronger, I do not think you need worry that we might side with the Communists should the U.S. pull out of Saigon. We are a genuinely anti-Communist country, and shall always be, no matter what...
...conclusion that Berkeley is "best balanced" when Harvard appears to lead Berkeley in four of five fields. Harvard is in first place nine times to Berkeley's seven, in first or second place 16 times to Berkeley's nine. Not until we consider third position does Berkeley pull ahead by one department. Is it logical to assign as much weight to third place as to first? I am further confused by a classification that assigns three out of five main groupings to the pure or applied sciences and none to the arts, medicine, law, business or theology...
...photographic exhibits. A ballistics expert testified that gunpowder burns on the victim's shirt proved the gun had been fired inside the car, and a physiologist was brought in to verify that a man thrown off balance would tend to make a reflexive clutching movement that could pull a trigger...
...newsmen who make up the current working Saigon press corps, theirs is the hottest beat in the business. Veteran and newcomer alike feel the compelling pull of a first-rank story that is in continuously desperate need of first-rate reporting...
Eminent retiring professors are always likely prospects, but every so often the Fellows throw a change up and pick someone who's still teaching. (Douglas Bush, retiring Gurney Professor of English Literature, got a Litt.D. in 1959, for example.) So they might just pull William Alfred...