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Aside from these two outstanding swimmers, Princeton has a whole fleet of good aquamen. Harvard coach Essick is quick to point out that Fred Test in the 50, 100, and 200 free; Mal Howard in the 100 and 200 free; and the 200 individual medley and Bob Cousar in the 200 fly all have better times than Harvard swimmers have recorded in those events this year...
...sound truck's directive, "Stay calm. Stay quiet..." a disjointed mass of bodies thrashes into the intersection of Mass Ave and Boylston Street. A barrage of over a hundred armed, billy-clubbed, helmeted riot police blocks their path. At their center are seven mounted police. Behind them a fleet of squad cars and paddy wagons jams Boylston Street...
...SEDUCTION OF MiMi. Lina Wertmuller demonstrates that it is possible to make a movie about political ideas without being didactic. Wertmuller is fleet, funny and shrewd about the vagaries of human nature that we sometimes call politics...
However, former Chief of Military Intelligence Chaim Herzog, who represents a minority view, thinks that garrisoning U.S. soldiers in Israel or stationing the U.S. Sixth Fleet at Haifa "makes good sense." After all, he says, "Israel's own deterrent has not prevented the last two wars...
...became Navy Commissar in 1939 at the age of 37. Kuznetsov embarked on a massive cruiser and battleship building program and restored czarist-style discipline on shipboard, requiring officers to wear bone-handled swords. He mapped the naval strategy used against Finland in 1940, and later led his fleet against the Nazis. Demoted by a suspicious Stalin, he was reinstated in 1951 and finally fell from power in 1956, when Khrushchev decided that Kuznetsov's emphasis on a surface navy was out of date...