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...Keller took second place in foil and Larry Cetrulo was runner-up in sabre in the NCAA Fencing Championships at the University of North Carolina last weekend to lead Harvard's all-sophomore contingent to a second-place finish behind the University of Pennsylvania...
Even more confusing were Garder's comments on assumptions about human nature. In his second lecture, he called people "paranoid" who believe that "evil people with evil purposes are running things behind the scenes." Leaders, including the much-abused military-industrial complex, are doing about the best they can within an inherently defective problem-solving system, the first two lectures seemed to say. But in taking some querulous swipes at the new morality and radical lifestyles, Gardner suggested that this is "a world of imperfect people, some of them savage, some foolish, some undisciplined, some rapacious." And in his third...
Sophomore Steve Owen lost his match by the same score. Yank Heisler, playing behind LoPucki, lost two down. Number 7 man, Tommy Wynne, played a good front nine, but lost his match...
...even the consistently heroic Bill Russell is treated to a cacophony of catcalls during his rare falls from hard-court grace. But this year Brahmins and Black Irish alike have had nothing but praise for their beloved Bruins, who at week's end were in second place behind Montreal, the National Hockey League's perennial champions. Skating, shooting and clubbing their way to their best finish in ten years, the Bruins shattered all N.H.L. team-scoring records and are even-money bets to win their first Stanley Cup since...
...Legitimate controversy or merely inconvenient opinion aired on television would also fall under the censor's watchful eye. "What is proposed," says Leonard Freeman, producer of CBS's Hawaii Five-O, "is Orwellian in its prospect. We are now overly cautious; the result is a vacuum years behind the audience...