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...game was "extremely satisfying" rugger Alec Wiggin said. "They get up for Harvard more than any other team, but we take the big ones away from them all the time." Over the last few years the Harvard rugby team has completely dominated Princeton. For instance, the last three times the two teams have met in competition for the Farmington Cup, held at Farmington Connecticut, Harvard has won each contest...
...meeting with Mrs. Gandhi last week, Belgian Prime Minister Gaston Eyskens stated that he was convinced India would not initiate a war. In Vienna, Mrs. Gandhi took time out from political discussions to accept a check for refugee children, and in London, where she conferred with Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home, she urged Britain to exert economic pressure against Pakistan...
...Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home began the debate by urging that Britain rejoin Europe (after 413 years, since the English quit Calais), Laborites shouted "No! No! No!" and stabbed their fingers in his direction. To pro-Marketeers, the main point was that, as the London Economist put it, "Europe cannot be fashioned against British interests once Britain is in." The antiMarket speakers said that the cost of joining was too high-in sovereignty yielded to bureaucrats in Brussels, in a threat to the British way of life, and in jobs lost to cheaper continental labor...
...diplomats, three businessmen and an academician who were not in the Soviet Union at the moment were declared persona non grata; some of them, in fact, had not been there for five years. For good measure, the Kremlin declared that the visit to Moscow of British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home, scheduled for next spring, was "impossible." Whitehall denounced the Soviet action as "arbitrary victimization," but for the moment did not strike back, as it had earlier threatened...
...happy ending was imperative. I shouldn't have bothered to write otherwise. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows, and in this sense Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood...