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...fact, that self-assurance has simply been modified. American inventiveness, once the very source of its confidence, is certainly not what it was in the days when the country came up with the safety pin or the Ford. But reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated. While West Germany and Japan have sent a competitive shiver into American industries in recent years, the U.S. has still managed to produce such things as the Xerox, the transistor, the laser and the microchip. A lot of Yankeeingenuity is spent, to be sure, on diverting gadgetry, such as a projected palm-size...
Sophomore Howard Verland's pin of his Coast Guard opponent only a minute and ten seconds into the first match of the day, in the 118 1b. weight class, started the ball rolling for the Crimson. From there, the grapplers cruised to eight victories in their next nine matches, losing only once, by a pin, at 177 pounds...
Verland's pin was Harvard's only fall of the day, and that bothered the Crimson coach. "We've been working on controlling (our opponents) but I think it's definitely time to work on pinning combinations," he said...
Today; Zhao still feels little of the resentment and hate that infects other "counterrevolutionaries" who survived the Cultural Revolution. "I was not the only on who suffered," he explains. "There were thousands--tens of thousands--and you really can't pin down who was responsible." He does not blame the Guards, confused children under the spell of Mao, for what they did. "If one doesn't have a choice, you can't make any moral judgment whether he is right or wrong," Zhao argues. "I never doubted that things would change," he says, "because it was so ridiculous, so silly...
...only one who suffered. There were thousands--tens of thousands--and you really can't pin down who was responsible...