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...Trump Card...
...been the case with all the other teams Harvard has run into this year, defense should be the Crimson's trump card. While the Golden Knights have been scoring just under five goals a game, they've been letting in just over five goals per contest. The Crimson defense, on the other hand, has been consistently the best in the East, allowing just 2.56 goals per game...
Quite legitimately, American manufacturers often attempt to trump foreign rivals by pointing out that U.S. products have been battle-tested in Viet Nam or the Middle East. The French, however, consistently exert the most impressive sales efforts. To complete a sale of Mirages to Australia, Marcel Dassault arrived accompanied by French military officials and a senior director of the Bank of France; later a bevy of French film stars were flown...
...desire to conduct his administration more in the open and not entirely behind closed doors conflicts with Kissinger's previous methods. Kissinger has always carried out his affairs under a cloak of secrecy. His irritations at criticism or questioning during the past year, though partly a facade geared to trump up sympathy for Nixon's sinking ship, indicate that Kissinger may not be up to laying all his cards on the table and taking the salt with the sugar...
...other governments to allow their airlines to do business with Air Rhodesia. Foreign reserves are already so tight that shortages have developed in everything from Scotch to washing-machine parts. Inevitably, the economic squeeze has cut the regime's ability to play one of its best trump cards-cash income for Africans. Recently the University of Rhodesia reported that 90% of Salisbury's employed blacks make less than $133 a month, which is considered the poverty line...