Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Skip Hare in the long jump, Jim Coleman in the high jump, and Pete Lazarus in the pole vault give Harvard front-line strength in the other field events...
...from 59 to 70, 80, and finally 90. Simultaneously, it limited recruits to men without dependents and those willing to sign up for a three-year hitch. When the Berlin blockade and the Communist seizure of Czechoslovakia took place in 1948, the Pentagon complained that it was far under strength and that relying on volunteers had failed. Congress was told that the draft was needed to get manpower and show U.S. determination to check Communist aggression. The clumsily titled Universal Military Training and Service Act was passed. After that, proposals for returning to a volunteer army were not heard...
...concept of international order is a Jewish idea we have been trying for 4,000 years to transmit to the rest of the world. It is an idea that works with great strength on the Jewish imagination. It is, however, an idea, not a reality. The U.N. does not express that idea with any effectiveness in its present composition. My view after 20 years of U.N. experience is not far different from that of General Assembly President Emilio Arenales of Guatemala: he recently referred to the "frivolity" and "irresponsibility" of certain majority decisions...
Penn, which has suffered the loss of two starters for the season already, hopes to be at full strength for the Harvard game. Captain Pete Andrews sat out last week's three point loss to Princeton (the Quakers blew a big lead in that one) with the flu, but both he and senior leaper Carl Robbins are expected to start...
...Johnson, the 6-3 forward who provides rebounding strength for the often-beleaguered front line, has returned to Cambridge after a rough bout with the flu, but indications are that he won't try to play this weekend, postponing his re-debut until Monday, at Tufts...