Word: assistance
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Montreal added a nice finishing touch with 2:50 to go when, with only helpless defenseman Dave Farrish back, Lemaire blasted in a pass from Shutt. Dryden also picked up an assist on the play...
DIED. Charles Angoff, 77, novelist, critic, educator and sole editorial associate of H.L. Mencken on the sassy literary monthly American Mercury; of cancer; in New York City. In 1925 Russian-born Angoff was chosen by Mencken over 61 applicants to assist him at the newborn Mercury. Angoff stayed on for 25 years, becoming, in Mencken's view, "the best managing editor in America." Angoff later published eleven novels about Jewish-American life, as recounted by a fictional alter ego named David Polonsky. In one of them Angoff savages a Mencken-esque "literary dictator of America," portraying...
Several of the players ended their careers with brilliant performances. Co-captain Ken First (13 saves), and Jamie Egasti (1 assist), Mike Faught (3 goals), Bill Forbush (2 goals, 1 assist), and Gordie Nelson (1 goal, 2 assists), will all be sorely missed next year...
Along with all other seniors, I have recently received a letter signed by the Senior Class Committee, describing the Stephen Biko Memorial Fund as an opportunity, "both to financially assist the University in its academic mission and to show disapproval of the University's investment policy." There are several points seniors should consider before contributing to this chimerical fund...
First, the fund is intended to assist, "South African blacks and coloureds admitted to Harvard-Radcliffe." I would be amazed, and indeed highly impressed, if any South African non-white nationals have been able to overcome the barrier of apartheid to the extent of being admitted to the College, or are likely to do so in the near future. I suspect there may be none. Can anyone disabuse me of this notion? This letter itself certainly does...