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...elder Oehrlein has beaten Yale's Mike Neely, who managed to beat Sullivan last year. Brother A1, playing at number two, has beaten Princeton's Harold German and must rank as a real threat in today's tilt...
...trays onto the audience. A woman came on wearing a shredded American flag on her head; her spine was as stiff as a flagpole. It had to be, since it was part of the monument to the victory at Iwo Jima, and three soldiers held her at the appropriate tilt. A 14-year-old boy in a Lincolnesque beard entered the room, was shown to his seat, and sat there waiting to be shot...
...fourth son of a Japanese farmer, came to Seattle in 1908 after the farm was inherited by an older brother, in accordance with traditional Japanese primogeniture. Yamasaki spent the first years of his life in a shabby wooden tenement whose foundation was so eroded that the house had a tilt. The Japanese-American community stayed within itself in those days, and young Yamasaki got only occasional hints of the degree of discrimination that lay beyond. Once, he remembers, his mother came home in tears after a cruel experience on a bus: she had taken a seat next
...votes for New Frontier bills on the floor of the House. But last year he refused to support the Administration's medicare bill, and he is considerably less casual about budget deficits than the Administration is. As a power in the middle, Mills can, within his realm of jurisdiction, tilt the House one way or the other. As Mills goes, so is his committee likely to go, and as Ways and Means goes, so, as a rule, goes the House...
...Robert McNamara remains unimpressed; to him, Skybolt seems worth neither the cost nor the effort. Groans an Air Force strategist: ''They threw our Skybolt into a cost-effectiveness computer. and it came up 'tilt.' " If Skybolt's advocates insist on comparing their bird with Minuteman and Polaris, claim its critics, they are on shaky ground. Skybolt is more elusive than a land missile only when it is airborne. But the cost of keeping a B-52 fleet aloft is immense -and a SAC base is a much softer target than a hardened silo. A nuclear...