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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cacophonous Counterpoint. Whether or not the aggressors were listening, the committee had to contend with a cacophonous counterpoint at home. From the right came a demand by World War I Flying Ace Eddie Rickenbacker that the U.S. bomb North Viet Nam's ports, dams and people. "You're not fighting human beings over there," he told a Houston interviewer. "You're just fighting two-legged animals. The people are just slaves...
Matchbox songs, gypsy hymns, Spanish miners, cowboy mouth, curfew gloves, child of the hoodlum, sheet-metal memories, magazine husband, a deck of cards missing the jack and the ace--he puts together the phrases and creates a person, the haunted Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, a being made of objects. "Love Minus Zero/ No Limit" is a beautiful love song fashioned out of horsemen, pawns, hammer winds, doctors, bridges, statues, fire, ice, dime stores and bus stations, bankers' nieces and wise...
Undefeated freshman ace Dave Pottetti held off a late challenge from teammate Tom Spengler to lead the Yardlings to an upset win in their G.B.C.'s Harvard won 30-43 over a Northeastern outfit which beat them in a dull meet several weeks...
...come from a Northwestern squad which fell to the Crimson in the season's second meet by a comfortable margin. But of course Colburn, Shaw, Hardin and McLoone all ran in that one. Tufts has at least two good competitors, Casely and Baldwin; and M.I.T. has the aforementioned unbeaten ace Wilson...
There's no way you can ace out your classmates for the good seats up high. The Department of Athletics collects the applications in bundles of 50 as they come in, and then pulls the bundles t random as they make the seat assignments...