Word: sabers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Captain Jamie Pusey led the varsity, with three wins in saber. Paul Winig contributed two victories, and John Kennedy one, as the saber team won six of its nine bouts...
President Kennedy's call for a reassessment was prompted by Khrushchev's saber-rattling announcement a week ago that Russia was postponing its scheduled cut of 1,200,000 in military manpower and increasing its military budget by one-third. Prepared by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, this latest military review will pass under the eye of General Maxwell Taylor, the White House's new military adviser, before it reaches President Kennedy. Its major purpose: to impress the seriousness of the coming crisis upon the U.S. public...
...fencing team picked James R. Pusey '62 of Quincy House and Cambridge to captain them next year. Pusey was third saber man this year, and will probably move to first position...
...than the Peking man or Java man. Says Leakey, a broad, rumpled, sometime Cambridge don: "My 19-year-old son Jonathan wandered across a slope during a pause in our other work at Olduvai and picked up a small fragment of animal jaw. 'You've got a saber-toothed tiger.' I said. We'd been expecting to get one. So we started a small dig, and the first thing we got was a human tooth. That's the way things are found in archaeology-a combination of keen observation and luck...
...solving the problem of copying the brain is neither necessary nor desirable, since nature did not design it for intelligence. "The brain of man, like that of other vertebrates, is an item of random design to meet one basic purpose: survival. The fact that it has outthought things like saber-toothed tigers is no evidence that it is particularly apt for abstract thinking...