Word: strains
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...other Antioch students, Mendelsohn worked for the still-young civil rights movement and tried his hand at local organizing for the labor movement. Upon graduation, he was uncertain whether he should work for organized labor or go to Harvard. "In 1953, the labor movement was under severe strain from the McCarthy people," Mendelsohn says now. "I made a commitment to myself then, to work towards those goals I saw for society... I hoped that it would never mean having to leave university life, but if it did, well...
Gallo will be a strain for the Crimson defense, which has been tested by consistent pressure created by efficient halfback lines...
...biggest concern may not be security but his health. Before he accepted his presidential nomination, doctors warned him that his heart could not stand the strain of four years in office. When Perón attended a gala performance of Swan Lake at the Teatro Colón on the night of his inauguration, newsmen noticed a specially equipped mobile heart unit parked outside...
...priority issue for the Federal Government. But the most practical way to do so-partly subsidizing urban mass-transit systems-raises fierce controversy. Members of Congress from suburban and rural areas argue that cities should pay for their own transit. President Nixon also opposes the subsidies, saying they would strain the federal budget...
...antidote for the strain as well as the boredom, restlessness and loneliness of long space journeys, the astronauts recommended a heavy load of useful work on future flights. That activity may be even more important to the Skylab 3 crew. At week's end, NASA was considering extending Skylab 3's mission-scheduled for launch Nov. 11-from the 56 days originally planned to 70. That would give the astronauts more time to observe the newly discovered Comet Kohoutek-perhaps the brightest of the century-as it makes its fiery pass around the sun in December and January...