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...Harvard College Fund relies to a large degree on Class reunion gifts, which spark a good deal of friendly class rivalry each June. Clifton predicted that both the Class of '28 and the Class of '53 will reach or surpass their goals of $1 million and $1.5 million respectively...
Over the next decade, U.S. military strategists believe, the primary threat to Saudi Arabia may come from Iraq, with which the Saudis share 400 miles of a common but ill-defined desert border, enormous oil wealth and little else. Iraq, which is expected to surpass Iran in oil production by the mid-1980s is a power of the future. But even today, the radical Ba'ath regime in Baghdad has nearly three times the air capability of the Saudis, more than twice as many tanks, armored personnel carriers and helicopters, and five times as many men under arms...
Senators John Tower and Howard Baker added SALT to the wounds by criticizing negotiations toward a Strategic Arms Limitation treaty that, Tower said, "would place the United States at a strategic disadvantage." The manifesto lays the groundwork for a Senate debate on SALT that could surpass in intensity the Panama Canal battle. Tower and Baker agree that any proposed SALT agreement will be a fall election issue...
...that Santa Claus is about as far as the bottom of his little pack," as far as increased federal aid to U.S. cities is concerned, Proxmire said. In the future, he added. Congress might increase its funding to aid cities in order to keep up with or possibly slightly surpass inflation...
...crucial events for Brown were the sprints and hurdles, where Brown began to steadily catch up and eventually surpass Harvard...