Word: winning
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...defect to the enemy. But in this century of total war, the prison camp has become an extension of the battlefield. Totalitarian nations are not content merely to extract information from a P.O.W. They often hound and harass a man for months and even years in order to win his mind and soul, to reduce him to an instrument of propaganda. It is, of course, a tactic that the Soviet Union devised for use against its own political prisoners, as dramatized with terrifying realism in Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon...
Pompidou is certain he could win. His handling of last summer's strikes and riots, he feels, was so adept that "a current" passed between himself and the country. Proof of the current was the Gaullist sweep of the special election in June, which Pompidou masterminded. The former Premier feels that he received a charge as well as a current. When he placed Pompidou "in reserve," De Gaulle asked him to "be prepared to accomplish any mission and to assume any mandate that could one day be confided to you by the nation." Pompidou and almost everyone else assumed...
...will be the first competition for the grapplers since their Jan. 11 win over a stubbora Cornell squad. The team has been able to practice only about three days a week, and is not in its usual top condition...
Nevertheless, the Crimson is favored to win a close meet. The Univ. of Mass. freshmen were undefeated last year as an ambitious wrestling program was initiated. Some of those wrestlers have mysteriously disappeared, however, so that the varsity team this year is not as strong as it would have been otherwise...
Harvard's only loss was to a surprisingly strong M.I.T. squad. Otherwise, the results have been good. In addition to the win over Cornell, the Crimson downed perennially powerful Franklin & Marshall and captured team prizes in the N.E.A.A.U. tournament in December...