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Junior Bill Diercks played a strong game in the nets for Harvard, gloving point-blank shots by Sheehy and Mike Flynn and kicking aside another half-dozen shots headed for the corners...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Harvard Topples B.C. 6-4 in Beanpot; Crimson Will Meet Terriers for Title | 2/6/1968 | See Source »

...original Red format, the two Look senior editors-Democrats both-grouped Johnson's sayings under 30 categories such as "The Long March Toward the Great Society" and "Humble Origins of the People's Servant." Under the chapter head "Humility and Self-Criticism," there is a meaningful blank space. All told, Shepherd and Wren gathered about 300 quotations from Johnson-his folksiest and most fulsome. Simon & Schuster, which plans to publish the $2 booklet in March with a limp red plastic cover similar to Mao's, reports keen early bookstore interest. Some facets of Lyndonthink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats: Lyndonthink | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

...harder the oil companies plug their contests, the more massive grows the frustration of the players whose glove compartments are full to overflowing with nonwin coupons. To jolly them along, American's "Super Pro," which is offering 250 Mustangs to the first 250 who can fill five blank spaces with the pictures of professional football stars, produced on TV in person the hardest of all the stars to find, Detroit Lions' Wayne Walker. The gag brought nothing but hollow laughter from the thousands of Super Pro players still lacking the Walker stamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Giveaways: Anybody Seen Wayne Walker? | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

...words of text. (The usual request: not more than 500 words without special permission.) As Joyce's manuscript runs to only 3,000 words, the request seems not only reasonable but prudent. Sample: "The heart is sore and sad. Crossed in love?" This is followed by a blank quarter-page, then: "Long lewdly leering lips; dark-blooded molluscs." (Joyce appears, quite properly, to have clammed up at this bluepoint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sinking Stones | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

Died. The Rt. Rev. Joost de Blank, 59, former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town; of a stroke; in London. Arriving in South Africa in 1957, the Dutch-born prelate raged against apartheid, calling for an end to the government's racist policies, opening his cathedral doors to all races, criticizing the Dutch Reformed Church for its failure to denounce apartheid-all of which stirred an uproar that did not subside until he moved to London in 1963 as Canon of Westminster Abbey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 12, 1968 | 1/12/1968 | See Source »

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