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...jump-ing-off point." So far, however, only small commando raids have been launched. Heavily outgunned (10 to 1), the Israelis are also outmanned. A lone Israeli division faces an Egyptian force perhaps ten times larger, yet so far has dissuaded Nasser from attempting a drive across Suez to regain a foothold on the Sinai Peninsula. Says Bar-Lev: "I think they will get tired before we will...
...There was a fervor about the new world we would create after the Nazimenace was eliminated," Goodman recalls. "We never asked any real questions. After the war we came back to Harvard to regain lost time...
Several months ago, former Governor George Wallace told intimates that he must "win big" this year in his effort to regain the Governor's mansion if he wanted to be a credible presidential threat in 1972. Now there are signs that Wallace, 50, may not win at all. His power has declined precipitously since 1966, when he was able to hand-pick his wife as his successor. Polls show Wallace running neck and neck in the Democratic primary with his former protege, the reserved, effective incumbent, Albert Brewer...
...Fortunately, the rules call for a Friday weigh-in and a Saturday race. If an oarsman can stagger onto the scales at 160 pounds on Friday afternoon, he is then free to bloat himself and regain his strength for Saturday's race...
Harvard's starting unit, having lost only one player from the squad that captured seventh place in the National Indoor AAU Championship last year, is more experienced and has an excellent chance to regain national ranking...