Word: attacking
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...first season in well over a decade, a Harvard football team has not been picked by the experts to be a factor in the Ivy League football race, let alone win the championship. There are simply too many questions in this year's Harvard attack, and too many returning answers from the arsenals of the other seven Ivy clubs. Keep in mind, though, that as bad as any Harvard team can be, it will always be better than at least four other teams in the league. So, lest we be called for Delay of Column, here is The Crimson...
...National Guard quickly moved in reinforcements. On Tuesday afternoon, without warning, it launched a three-hour aerial attack, concentrating on the poor barrios in the hills around the city. Visiting Matagalpa shortly after the attack, TIME Mexico City Bureau Chief Bernard Diederich found the hospitals filled with wounded. At least 17 people were dead. Many residents had fled the city, but those who remained were defiant. "We know they are going to bomb us again," said an elderly woman. "It shows what a barbaric regime we are living under...
DIED. Robert Shaw, 51, fiery character actor, novelist and playwright who parlayed his rugged good looks and powerful screen presence into late-blooming Hollywood stardom; of a heart attack; in Tourmakeady, Ireland. Shaw wrote five novels, critically acclaimed in his native Britain, and rewrote one, The Man in the Glass Booth, as a successful Broadway play directed by Harold Pinter. But he was best known as an actor, first on the London stage (Tiger at the Gates, The Long and the Short and the Tall), later in American movies, where he portrayed a wide-ranging gallery of rogues. Among them...
DIED. John J. Wrathall, 65, President of Rhodesia, who served from 1964 to 1975 as his country's Finance Minister; of a heart attack; in Salisbury. One of Rhodesia's chief strategists in its fight against U.N. trade sanctions, the British-born Wrathall frequently lambasted London for participating in the embargo that followed his country's declaration of independence in 1965. Appointed to the figurehead presidency by Prime Minister Ian Smith in 1976, Wrathall had been expected to vacate his office at year's end, in favor of a black Rhodesian...
DIED. F. van Wyck Mason, 76, prolific and bestselling historical novelist (among his more than 60 books: Three Harbours, Stars on the Sea, Cutlass Empire); of a heart attack while swimming; near Southampton, Bermuda. A skilled storyteller especially interested in colonial and Civil War America, Mason embellished his complex plots with minute detail and romantic flourish. He also penned a popular series of tales of intrigue featuring Captain (later Major and Colonel) Hugh North, and during World War II served as chief military historian for Dwight Eisenhower's SHAEF command...