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Duke, ranked second in the nation with a 25-3 season record, blew a five point lead and Kentucky in turn gave away margins of nine and seven points before the game settled down midway through the second half...
...TIME perpetuates a colossal misstatement: that a reading of the Japanese "Purple Code" by the Army helped the Fleet Admiral dispose his forces for the Battle of Midway. The Purple Code was a Japanese diplomatic cipher; whether we read it or not had no relation to Midway. What did occur was that in April or early May 1942 a group of naval (including Marine) cryptanalysts and Japanese linguists working under Commander J. J. Rochefort at Pearl Harbor were successful in partially breaking and translating a Japanese naval code. This was a major element (but by no means the only...
Neville Hayes swam his fastest time of the year (1:57.6) but was unable to beat North Carolina's Olympian Phil Riker in the 200-yard butterfly. Hayes did not leave the starting blocks until the other finalists hit the water, but he nearly caught Riker midway through the race. However, Riker had too much left and held off a tired Hayes to win by two feet 1:56.9. It was a heartbreaker. Hayes, despite his poor start, was still able to hold off Yale's Bill Mettler for the second race in a row. It was Hayes' first loss...
Unmentionable Word. His gamble paid off. In the resulting battle, the enemy lost four irreplaceable carriers and the momentum that had propelled him from victory to victory. For the Japanese, Midway became an unmentionable word. Nimitz indulged himself in a rare pun: "Perhaps we will be forgiven if we claim that we are about midway to our objective." Though more than three years of hard, bitter fighting remained, that single, three-day battle marked the turning point of the Pacific war, the beginning of the end of Japanese ambitions...
...first hour of their pamphleteering was relatively quiet, with only a few minor incidents. The threats reached a peak midway through the lunch hour, when the general cry was "Send them to Vietnam. Get them out of here...