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...some, it provided the confidence that conflict would be avoided; for others, inside information only added to their apprehension. Undergraduates lacked any such special insights, and emotions in the dorms fluctuated with the tone of each day's news reports. "We were up and down," says Frederic L Ballard Jr. '63, who was president of the Crimson. "We would hear a report about the confrontation of ships and just have to wait to hear if that was going...
Less than a week after the Crimson front page had been filled with speeches on the apocalypse and calls for U.S. invasions, the stories on student government and debates over General Education returned. "The lasting memory is one of fear followed by relief," says Frederic Ballard. "We were all just so relieved that there wasn't warfare." By election day, missiles and surgical air strikes were all but forgotten. "Cliffies Endorse Teddy Kennedy As Sexiest Candidate for Senator," proclaimed a page-one headline. Stuart Hughes received a grand total of 50,000 votes for his anti-war campaign, and three...
Haywood 7 3-3 17, Ballard 5 0-0 10, Mahorn 4 2-2 10, Johnson 7 0-1 14, Collins 4 2-2 10, Ruland 2 1-2 5, Lucas 5 0-0 10, Grevey 2 5-6 9, Davis 1 0-0 2, Chones 0 1-2 1, Witts 1 1-2 3, Terry 0 0-0 0, Totals...
...year, I wasn't going to give the money back." Oilers Owner Peter Pocklington is enthusiastic: "I was offered $2 million for him, but $10 million wouldn't buy him. There's no price on greatness." Toronto Owner Harold Ballard can think of one. "I'd trade my whole team for the kid, and throw in the farm club...
...Ballard's sumptuous images exist only to distract from his rather conventional failings of craftsmanship. The ruse does not succeed. Though the freckle-faced Reno and Mickey Rooney (as the horse's crafty old trainer) are well cast, then-scenes together are perfunctory and impersonal. Emotions are provided in stead by a busy and overbearing musical score. The film's story begins to move in fits and starts. Except for the inevitable big race, it is not advanced visually but by bald snatches of voice-over dialogue. No doubt children in the audience will have a fine...