Word: slims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last weekend's combination arctic survival and fencing test ended in Ithaca, N.Y., yesterday, and the Crimson fencers emerged with universally cold noses and a slim 15-12 victory over Cornell...
After John Keough (167) was decisioned for four Cornell points. Harvard's team chances were slim despite a 19-11 lead. At 190 and unlimited the Crimson was a without Dave Scanlon and Angelo Mareno and Cornell had a good chance for 12 points...
...they make the positive commitment to keep the world safe for America's brand of democracy. Generally disenfranchised from the prosperity of America, they possess no sense of noblesse oblige. Often alienated and debased, they have no sacred national image to protect. Their own chances for economic advancement usually slim, they see no logic in spilling blood over Guatemalan bananas or Southeast Asian oil. Internationalism is to these people simply a giant waste of lives, time, money, and effort--all of which could be better utilized, they reason, in their own back yards...
...Senator Abraham Ribicoff-even though Ribicoff had drawn up a somewhat different bill of his own.* As Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Kennedy Administration, Ribicoff developed expertise on the subject that is respected by his colleagues, and his leadership seemed vital to the bill's slim chances for favorable action this year. Amazingly, however, until last week no important White House official had even talked to Ribicoff about the matter. Instead, HEW offended him by releasing what he considered inflated statistics on the cost of an amendment he had suggested...
...school record in the 200 yd. individual medley with a very good time of 2:00.8 but, in an exciting finish, he was beaten by Charles Cambell of Princeton who swan a 2:00.1 and set the pool record. Going into the drive, therefore, Harvard held a slim 22-21 lead...