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Navy was a seven-point underdog. But at Annapolis they raised a banner, "Home of Roger Staubach," and for Navy that evened all the odds. Showing an admirable taste for tradition, he completed eleven out of 13 passes, personally accounted for 222 yds. and four touchdowns as Navy won 34-14. Army Coach Paul Dietzel had the air of a man preparing the excuse for next year. "Staubach is head and shoulders above all the other quarterbacks," he said...
...named Henri Christophe tore the white center out of the French tricolor and proclaimed himself emperor of the world's first black republic. Nine years of bloody rebellion had, in fact, led to the extermination of Haiti's white population. Today Christophe's flag, a somber red and blue banner, still flies over the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince--a reminder of a painful past...
...quintet reciprocated by singing the "Star Spangled Banner" to a slow piano accompaniment in five somewhat off-key parts. As they left, the quintet were given water-colors, silver key-rings, and diaries made in the school shop...
...sense of tradition and loyalty that was so important in directing him toward poetry in the first place, now impelled him to put his art at the service of his country. "It was our duty to rub off these dirty marks from our banner and to restore the original meaning of our revolutionary concepts," he declares...
...upper banner the first two characters read "Down with." But the next four characters seem syntactically unrelated, though we know the meaning of each of them. In Romanized form they read, "Heh-lu-hsiao-fu." We feel that this must be the transliterated surname of some non-Chinese. Is it Khrushchev...