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Pete Harpel in the hammer looks like a sure bet to break Sam Felton's record of 180 feet, 5 3/4 inches, but whether or not he does it this afternoon could well depend on the performance of Bixby. John DuMoulin and Doty threaten a Crimson sweep if Bixby falters...
...missile future. "It must be frankly recognized that there is at present no means of providing adequate protection for the people of this country against the consequences of an attack with nuclear weapons," said the White Paper flatly. "The only existing safeguard against major aggression is the power to threaten retaliation with nuclear weapons...
Answer in Kind. Now, with the prospect of NATO missile bases in Britain and West Germany-and perhaps in Turkey, Italy and Norway as well-the Soviets could no longer threaten clear and present danger to Western Europe with short-range nuclear missiles without fear of retaliation in kind. Neither the U.S. nor Russia will be equipped with a long-range nuclear missile force-in-being for some years, and both sides know it. But the imminent arrival of U.S. nuclear missiles at British and other NATO bases represents a turn of the screw that tightens still further the ring...
...some of his sentences in self-conscious Sunday-best. Images that arrest also often manacle the narrative. But in his bewildered hero bent on restoring a lost Eden, Author Jones has found an apt symbol for the current Southern temper, restive and occasionally violent under edicts which seem to threaten cherished folkways. In a fictional amber as reflective as it is rhetorical, he has fixed the unchanging pathos of social change...
Princeton is currently in second place in the League race, with a 6-1 record, following a win over Brown last night. The Tigers handily defeated Harvard twice last year, and are counting on a repeat if they are to seriously threaten for League laurels...