Word: quarters
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With more than a quarter of its top policy posts yet to be filled, the Nixon Administration has been making haste slowly-very slowly-in putting its stamp on the federal bureaucracy. When the Viet Nam "11 o'clock group," composed of middle-level officials from several agencies who review important operational questions, convened at the State Department last week, all the faces were familiar from the Johnson era. Though hardly trifling, the vitriolic, five-month-old dispute with Peru over seizure of U.S. oil properties is just now receiving close attention. The new Assistant Secretary of State...
...Newark's problems is the fact that the city is rapidly turning black. Negroes comprise 52% of the population, up from 34% in 1960 and 17% in 1950. So speedy is the flight of whites to the suburbs that they are expected to constitute less than one-quarter of the population by 1975. Middle-class Negroes are also joining the white exodus, settling in communities like East Orange. "It's like being caught in a scissors," moans Mayor Hugh Addonizio. "One blade is the financial crisis. The other is the racial crisis...
Stout Oak Clubs. Not all of them make it. Of the 250,000 harp-seal pups born in the gulf each year, nearly one-quarter may die at the hands of their natural enemy-man. Their white coats have long been prized for boot and glove trimmings and for fur jackets. In the gulf, a horde of hunters invade the floes on foot, by boat, on ski-equipped planes and in recent years by helicopter. Hundreds of sealers-"swilers" in the Newfoundland dialect-conduct a brief but grimly efficient slaughter. With stout oak clubs they move systematically through the herd...
Sophomore John Imrie was taken out of competition in the first round by Bob Aherns of Navy. 190-pound-class Howie Freedman lost in the quarter finals to ultimate champion Charles Bannat of Navy, and Tom Tripp, in the unlimited class, was pinned by Tom O'Connell of Penn...
Brooks had hoped his quarter of Mike Cahalan, Toby Gerhart, Dave Powlison, and Steve Krause could do better, but said," "It was really a great team effort, and is especially impressive since it was the only all-sophomore relay team entered...