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University Marshal J. Hampden Robb '21 will officially open the program with the traditional words to the High Sheriff of Middlesex County, "Mr. Sheriff, pray us order." Howard W. Fitzpatrick, county sheriff, will strike the stage three times with his scabbard, saying, "The meeting will be in order...
Your quotation from Mahan is a paraphrase of a very old proverb, and written in many tongues, namely, that "one sword keeps another in the scabbard." In an evil age, the man who bares the sword is the man who bears the peace...
ARMED FORCES Something for a Scabbard The U.S. Army, grimly aware that its historic role and mission will be obsolete in the missile age, last week publicly wigwagged its hope of latching on to both a new weapon and way of life. To New York Timesman James Reston the Army passed the word that it had presented to Defense Secretary Neil McElroy and the Joint Chiefs of Staff a plan to produce an operational anti-missile missile* by 1961. Cost: between $6 billion and $7 billion. Name of the proposed missile system : the Army's Nike-Zeus...
Neither the Nike-Zeus nor the Wizard system can yet handle these problems, even on paper. But the Army, desperate for a shining new missile to fit its honored scabbard, is willing to try to handle them -in the papers...
...secret is out. Saud gave Ike a scimitar in a lavishly jeweled scabbard. Ike gave Saud an original painting of a Colorado landscape by a well-known amateur artist, bearing the initials D.D.E. in its corner, plus a desk...