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Another maneuver designed to take advantage of the same weakness was a flashy double-reverse known as the "Sally Rand." The Quakers used it only twice; but the first time it went for a touchdown (from the Harvard 21), and on the other occasion it provided 24 crucial yards in the midst of Penn's second scoring drive...
...SECRET OF EASTER ISLAND (384 pp.)-Thor Heyerdahl-Rand McNally...
...said the House Military Operations Subcommittee last week, "is that the American people and many of their elected and appointed policy officials refuse to accept the distasteful facts of reality simply because they are distasteful." The distasteful facts, as set forth by the subcommittee with help from Rand Corp. researchers: a thermonuclear attack on the 150 largest U.S. cities could wipe out 70% of the nation's industry and kill 160 million people, about 90% of the population...
...about. They soon discovered that the original Post-Dispatch story had been vastly overblown, growing out of a highly theoretical study of the history and nature of national surrender, completely nonspecific as far as mention of the U.S. was concerned. It was inaugurated seven years before by the Rand Corp., a private research agency with Air Force contracts, and was finally published in book form last spring...
Silly as it was, the great surrender flap caused thoughtful comment from at least one quarter. Wrote Columnist David Lawrence: "The key words [of the Rand study] are 'surrender politically,' and that's what many journalists and spokesmen for appeasement are unwittingly advocating nearly every day. They have ridiculed 'massive retaliation' . . . They have insisted that America must take the 'first blow' in a nuclear...