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...Middies did it the right way, too, leading from start to finish over the mile and three-quarter distance. And Navy withstood the Crimson's big challenge. The varsity, stroked by Larry Brownell, upped its beat to 32 and pulled to within a decklength midway through the race. But Navy gradually widened the gap, and was midway through the race. But Navy gradually widened the gap, and was clocked at 8:44.3 to the Crimson's 8:47.8. Penn was four lengths back with a time...
...Promote a free-market economy. "This Administration believes . . . that a most powerful influence over the years has been the accumulated effect of the industry and efforts of so many of our people to advance their own interests independently and in their own ways. This way of life has withstood wars and political manipulations and experiments of all kinds." ¶ Demonstrate more ingenuity in production, sales and distribution. Full production will create tough competition, but Americans have never feared competition. ¶ Manage that enormous legacy, the federal debt, with wisdom. The total debt is more than $267 billion, with $32 billion...
Finally the pressure in Peter Akulonis' head grew too great to be withstood. He sidled around the shop, eyes wild, trying to pick fights. Then he quit. "I hope you choke, you bastards," he shouted, and walked out the door. Last week, after a few days of brooding, he roused himself to go job-hunting, but after one halfhearted attempt, he began drinking instead. One Little Room. Early in the afternoon he went back to his four-room flat, picked up a carpenter's ax, walked into the bedroom and killed his wife (with a single stroke from...
Since its formation, the Advisory Committee--the more publicized of the two groups--has withstood vigorous, albeit sporadic, attacks from opponents both to the right and to the left...
...TIME believe the original standards have successfully withstood a long test and have as much validity today as they had in the much more serene world of 1923. We still believe that the concept of purely "objective" reporting is not only unattainable but unrealistic. The editors of TIME have always set themselves a more workable goal: fairness, and a constant effort to blend the news into its own background. And while avoiding glib predictions of the future, TIME seeks to present the news in a way that will give its readers an intelligent estimate of what the future is likely...