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Double, double toil and trouble...
Freshman Dan Rubin saved Brandeis from total embarrassment by taking one bout in toil against sophomore John Kruse, 5-2. Kruse won his other match, 5-0. Half of Harvard's scoring was by second-stringers...
...Louis W. Koenig describes in The Invisible Presidency as "the toilers in the shadows." "American History," contends Koenig, "is customarily written as a saga of great men, especially great Presidents. It needs also to be written-or rewritten-in terms of 'second men,' the spectral figures who toil influentially in the shadows around the presidential throne." Serving as "extensions of the President's personality, his eyes and ears," he adds, they cover a range "virtually as broad as the presidency itself...
...sweeping northward toward the Danube as the Kaiser heard the fateful words. No Paris street names recall Macedonian victories, no heroes' welcome awaited the returning veterans. Vainly did the Times of London plead that "justice be done to those men who have had the dust and toil, without the laurel of victory." In this masterful and highly readable book, British Historian Alan Palmer sets out to do justice to this unsung campaign. From the first landings of the French and British at Salonika in 1915, the Macedonian theater was treated as an unwanted stepchild of the Allied high command...
...Even technical skill is not always a guarantee of a job: 254 graduates of a Moscow machine-tool school and 60 trained radio technicians can not find jobs in their fields. The old dodge of opening up land in Siberia is out, because Russians are no longer willing to toil where schools and housing are poor, wages are low and prices twice what they are elsewhere. The result is not only a dwindling influx of pioneers, but a soaring outflow of migrants: close to 1,000,000 in the past seven years. Most of them go to the Caucasus, where...