Word: rashness
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...Gard Wiggins, Administrative Vice President of Harvard, will join President Pusey in an early retirement on July 1. The move is viewed by many observers as the first in an expected rash of retirements by top Pusey administrators...
...clearly feels that the University cannot give in: the precedent might lead to a rash of seizures by groups angered at University policies, presenting him with an even more difficult choice...
...rash U.S. decision, Richard Nixon might have been on the platform instead of Podgorny. When the darn was being planned in 1956, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser won pledges of $268 million in assistance from the World Bank, the U.S. and Britain. But when Nasser began talking about seeking funds from Moscow too, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles decided to punish him by revoking Washington's pledge. Britain and the World Bank thereupon also reneged. Moscow moved in with a flourish, eventually lending Cairo $554 million of the dam's $800 million cost. The Russians...
...running into the usual rash of injuries that seem to face every team this time of year," he said. Among those not competing tonight are two members of the mile relay team. Kevin Dunn, a graduate of B.C. High, is out of action with an ear infection. Hunt considers Dunn a "mainstay" in the relay. Tom McElligott, another important man, won't be running because of a pulled muscle...
Hard-liners v. Technocrats. Never in Franco's rule had Spain's divisions been so deep or so public. The issue was not so much the Basques as the shape of post-Franco Spain itself. A rash of campus protests in Madrid and Barcelona nearly two years ago was all the excuse the generals needed to demand that Franco scuttle his five-year experiment in "liberalization" of state controls on the press, the labor unions and the universities-or face a military coup. There were signs last week that the hard-liners had summoned up the fading Falange...