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Died. William F. Friedman, 78, cryptoanalyst who led the task force that broke the Japanese "purple code" just before U.S. entry into World War II; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. It took Friedman and his group of experts two years to crack the immensely complex and supposedly undecipherable code. The breakthrough provided the U.S. with advance knowledge of virtually every Japanese move throughout...
...number of students took issue in particular with Calkins's view that the chief goal of American policy is to reduce the chances of a nuclear...
...finally were picked up by a truck driver who had just delivered 35 gallons of onion soup from New York City to Boston. He let off Adam in Worcester and took me as far as a Howard Johnson's somewhere in western Massachusetts...
...ride from the toll booth took me about 20 miles down the Taconic. By now it was completely black outside, so I took a white T-shirt out of my suitcase and tried to flag down the passing cars. After a few minutes I started yelling "Help !" at each car. A man picked me up and took me to Red Hook, 15 miles from Bard...
...game was evenly played, however, and went into overtime. Then there was a penalty shot called for the Crimson. Getch took the penalty shot and put the ball into the net, and Harvard held on for a 2-1 win. The victory knocked the unbeaten Elis out of contention for the national championship...