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...Robin Hood robbed the rich to give to the poor. President Nixon's welfare reform legislation would rob the near-poor to give to the poor...
...they began their investigation of Apollo 14's 96 Ibs. of rock, equal to the total haul from Apollo 11 and 12, geologists in Houston were optimistic that the samples would yield new and important facts about the moon. Dr. Robin Brett, chief of the Manned Spacecraft Center's geochemistry branch, noted that "in a preliminary look, the rocks appear to be quite different from what we saw on Apollo 11 and 12." Since most lunar rocks are gray, the geologists were particularly eager to analyze a fragment chipped from a puzzling white boulder that the astronauts spotted...
...badge of courage in the fight for freedom." The Green Berets were, in this war at least, a final flowering of glory-Pimpernels, the last Lone Rangers, ready for anything, ascetic, hard as knives, Apaches with diplomas from Fort Bragg. For a time they were American heroes. In 1965, Robin Moore's novel The Green Berets became a bestseller, and a year later, Barry Sadler's Ballad of the Green Berets went to the top of the song charts. John Wayne even made a mock-heroic hagiographical film, which among the young became Middle America's answer...
...when he appeared in The Great Train Robbery, which ran all of ten minutes and was the most successful and influential of the early story films. In 1907 he moved to California, where he directed, wrote and acted in some 375 westerns as Broncho Billy, a rough but noble Robin HoodrStyle desperado...
Harvard's varsity wrestling team started strong and is in a good position to take all three dual meets in a four team round-robin tournament in Lancaster, Pa. The meet, whose final round is this afternoon, is hosted by Franklin and Marshall College...