Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moderate Tearoom. By sheer weight of numbers as well as dollars, the cavalrymen were hurting An Khe and being hurt by the uncontrolled squalor and rapacity of the riffraff. So just before things boiled over in Tet New Year roistering last January, Air Cav General Harry W. O. Kinnard stepped in and declared all of An Khe off limits to his men. Prices soon dropped back toward normal, the disease rates dipped. But the men of the Air Cav, out fighting in the jungles for weeks at a time in some of the bitterest, bloodiest battling...
...m.p.h. by reactor-powered turbines that deliver only 6,000 h.p.-compared with the more than 40,000 h.p. needed to power a Boeing 707 jet. Such a reactor is already available; together with its shielding and turbines, it would weigh about 120,000 Ibs., substantially less than the weight of fuel alone needed for a long journey by a conventionally powered airship...
...Wilson is the Crimson's leader in the weight events. He'll be meeting stiff competition in defending NCAA champ John Flore of Boston College. Top contender in the discus is Eagle sophomore Jim Cavanaugh...
...best news all spring for Coach Bill McCurdy has been the development of sophomore weight man Ron Wilson, who has won six events in two meets so far. Last winter Wilson began as a mediocre weight thrower, but by the end of the season his tosses were eminently respectable...
...Heath retained Reginald Maudling as Deputy Opposition Leader and added to his stock by giving him the Commonwealth and Colonies shadow portfolio. That gives Maudling responsibility for Rhodesia-a fulcrum that any oppositionist should be able to wield to advantage. If Heath and Maudling together can put the full weight of Tory leadership into the opposition, Wilson's plump majority could be thinned in ensuing by-elections. If not, Heath might well be supplanted by Maudling as the Conservatives' leader...