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...only offensive skill position at which the Crimson currently professes a degree of certainty is tailback, where sophomore Clifton Dawson, who comfortably shattered a slew of Crimson rushing and scoring records a season ago, will return to threaten his own marks...
...tide of immigrants changing the face of New York does not threaten me. If America is as good to these newcomers and benefits as much from their efforts as it did from those of my parents, who arrived in 1913, then all will be well. Rabbi Ronald Millstein Great Neck...
...farm on which the procedure would take place belongs to Everett King, a burly man in his late 30s whose face is sun-red from his cap line down. King is less troubled by the capsules in his land than by a rabid skunk in the area that might threaten his children, and by a raccoon that commandeered the basketball backboard over the garage and will not back off. Besides missiles and Air Force personnel, King's 5,000 acres contain spring wheat and fallow land in alternating green and brown stripes, a crop of oats, malting barley, a sleepy...
...There were three other instances when I considered using nuclear weapons. One was in the '73 war, when Brezhnev threatened to intervene unilaterally in the Mideast. We could not allow Israel to go down the tube. We could not allow the Soviets to have a predominant position in the region. That had to be the bottom line. I wanted to send that message, and putting the weapons on alert did that. We did not so much want to threaten the Soviet Union with nuclear weapons as to indicate that the U.S. would resist them, conventional and nuclear. That...
Rosenberg said that he eventually decided to threaten with legal action, and the calls stopped yesterday...