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Harvard remaining points came in the high jump, where Jim Coleman took first and Don Wilkes tied for third, and in the long jump, where sophomore Walter Johnson missed first by a scant three inches...
...East. Until three years ago, the V.N.A.F. was a kind of Asian Lafayette Escadrille. The pilots came from good families, had their pick of Vietnamese girls to date, were togged up by then Commander Nguyen Cao Ky in natty black flying suits, black boots and sunglasses. But they had scant discipline and seldom bothered about flight conditions or briefings on enemy preparedness. In those days, some pilots refused to fly at any altitude except 9,000 feet because nine is the Buddhist lucky number...
Warming the Climate. In the past, Trudeau observed, Canada's geographical and economic links to the U.S. have given his country scant percentage of maneuverability in its foreign policy. However, he said pointedly, "it should use that 10% or 20% to the hilt." He defined Canada's position as "one of interrogation." For his part, Nixon was anxious to warm the climate between neighbors that had cooled under two previous Administrations. But he also felt compelled to press tactfully for U.S. defensive security both in this hemisphere and in Europe. The President was persuasive in contending that...
Last week, a scant five days after Arthur Jensen made headlines in Virginia papers regarding inferiority of black people as measured by IQ tests, defense attorneys and their expert witnesses fought a suit in Federal District Court to integrate Greensville and Caroline County schools...
Nosal, a 6-2, 220-pound sophomore, edged Ed Potts of Navy by a scant three inches with a distance of 69'9 1/4" in the weight. Steady Charlie Ajootian added three more points with third place. Skip Hare soared 23'7" for third place in the long jump to increase the Crimson margin. Despite a troublesome thigh injury, the husky junior has performed consistently in his event in recent meets...