Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's varsity track team finished off a perfect season in brilliant fashion Saturday as they captured a decisive 84-70 victory over Yale at New Haven. The win gave the Crimson a 5-0 dual meet record, in addition to victories in the Greater Boston and Heptagonal championships...
...myriad problems and risks posed by the nuclear age, none weighs so heavily on the strategist, politician and scientist as the need to anticipate the military balance five and ten years hence. Such foresight is a necessity because of the long lead time required to perfect weapons systems. The difficulty of reading the tarot cards of Atomic Age technology and rival nations' intentions is at the heart of the anti-ballistic-missile dispute...
...girders on each of the Nile bridges, and guard the Cairo airport, the railroad terminal and key road junctions on the sprawling city's edges. Sonic booms occasionally rattle the windows of Cairenes as MIG fighters scramble daily on simulated interception missions. Through the clear air, as gun crews perfect their skills in the nearby desert, come the crump of artillery and the rhythmic tat too of antiaircraft fire...
...college administrators around the U.S. took notice. "The university has finally come up with a very effective-and invidious-device," said William Kunstler, a lawyer for the students. At least a dozen schools wrote to Columbia for details. "From the university's point of view, the technique is perfect," said L. D. Nachman, a political theorist at the City University of New York. "It will work. It really will work...
Harvard's varsity track team will try to nail down a perfect season Saturday when it travels to Yale for a tradition-filled meet. The Crimson is now 4-0 in dual meet competition and has also captured the Greater Boston and Heptagonal championships...