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...others collided with the jagged obstacles and barbed wire that the Germans had embedded along the beach. The heavily burdened invaders had to scramble out into neck-deep water, or worse. A number of amphibious craft loaded with artillery turned back. Armored units had an even harder time. Their Sherman DD tanks were outfitted with devices that were supposed to keep them afloat while they lurched ashore, but of the first 32 launched, 27 sank in the choppy waves and plunged to the bottom, taking most of their helpless five-man crews with them...
Some analysts are so distrustful of FBI statistics that they refuse to attach any meaning at all to the latest numbers. The Police Foundation's Lawrence Sherman charges that the statistics are not only riddled with errors but subject to all kinds of bureaucratic and political manipulation on the local level. Has crime really declined? "It's anybody's guess," says Sherman. "I'm not going to stand up and start cheering...
...three lies" of the statue are well known: it does not resemble a likeness of John Harvard, since no one knows what he really looked like (Sherman Hoar, Class of 1882, served as a model for the head, although French claimed it was an idealized image): John Harvard was not actually the "founder" of the College, but rather willed "his library and half of his estate" (about 400 books and about 800 pounds) to the two-year-old school at what was then called Newtowne in 1638, and the date referring to Harvard's Founding, 1638, is late...
...fact, sophomore Tom Corcoran needed just 29 seconds to get things rolling. Corcoran controlled the opening face off, zeroad in on Springfield goals Jeff Sherman, dished the ball> received it back and with a quick flick of the wrist made...
Most Administrations have been plagued by ethical breakdowns of varying seriousness. Harry Truman's military aide, General Harry Vaughan, accepted a freezer from a manufacturer and survived the uproar. Dwight Eisenhower fired his chief of staff, Sherman Adams, for giving Government favors to an industrialist and taking a vicuña coat and an Oriental rug from him. Jimmy Carter defended his Budget Director and crony, Bert Lance, until Lance quit under charges that he had permitted relatives to overdraw their accounts in a bank he had headed. And then, of course, there were Richard Nixon's Watergate...