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Also returning from last year's squad is number five man Dave Fish. As a sophomore, Fish won his division of he intercollegiate championship. Fish's greatest asset is his fine racquet work, but Barnaby feels he must develop his court mobility to be a top-notch number one player...
...Penn lost its entire halfback line through graduation, but sophomores Chris Pippin and Mike Copple have turned in excellent performances all year. Munro's scouting reports indicate that the halfback line may now be the Quakers' greatest asset...
...asset his money need not buy is his brilliance as a campaigner. As he moves through a crowd slapping backs, pinching biceps, winking, remembering names, he goes with an aura of confident pleasure. He has spent many hours at beaches, plunging into waves and joining impromptu samba sessions. Goldberg has climbed a 42-ft. ladder to be photographed with construction workers; that is apparently as far as he will go in that kind of stumping...
This fear was part of the rationale for also seeking to prevent other nations from becoming nuclear powers; but behind that rationale was the more basic theorem that the possession of atomic weapons, even in their nonuse, was an incalculable political asset. In a proliferating world community, the U. S. and the Soviet Union would have grown progressively less powerful and influential; but if nuclear weapons could be kept out of everyone else's hands, the two would continue to flourish. The new application of the balance of power concept was indeed conceived, as Schelling pointed out, in terms...
...equally insistent that ads appearing elsewhere do not use the magazine's reports to endorse a product. "Credibility is our biggest asset," affirms Smith. "Endorsements make the public skeptical. They think something is going on under the table. With the present system, the public has a feeling that a rating has been earned, not bought." Nevertheless, some manufacturers occasionally try to cash in on a favorable CR rating. CR always takes court action to stop them. It is currently battling the Theodore Hamm Brewing Co. of Minnesota over the use of CR's name in its beer...