Word: blue
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Late in the first half. Harvard began to move again, and again it was the sad familiar cycle. In eight plays Hornblower and sophomore Steve Harrison brought the Crimson from its own 24 to the Red and Blue seven. And Harvard stalled again...
...Lindsay has made an error late in the campaign, it was his order that city flags fly at half mast to mark Vietnam Moratorium Day. It was a beautiful thing to witness, but it only added to his alienation from civil servants and blue collar workers. Police cars and buses burned their headlights to show support for President Nixon. It is true such individuals as drove them were not likely to cast their lot with Lindsay in any case, but even for opponents of the war his action raised the specter of another mayor at another time marshalling a different...
...disaster. The Quakers had 20 Lettermen returning from last fall's squad that lost only to Harvard and Yale, and they opened the season with fairly easy triumphs over Bucknell and Brown. Then they played Dartmouth Penn's offense depends on its quarter-back-and the Red and Blue had lost both Berne Zbrzeznj and Mike Hickok with shoulder separations in the Brown game...
...biggest selling point though is Hayes himself. He is a tall, good-looking Irishman with sad blue eyes. He has a little of whatever it is that makes Richard Burton so popular. Soft spoken, but with an incredible memory for faces and names, he appeals to the ladies. One woman he met at a coffee the other night had taken care of him when he was a six-year-old playing in the tot lot. He had not seen her in 21 years, but he remembered her. She will vote for him. Ironically her number one vote for City Council...
...Detroit and the new Federal City College in Washington, they also attend the better-known universities. Indeed, one study indicates that 58% of U.S. freshmen last year had fathers who did not go to college. At last count, 37% of all college students came from families headed by blue-collar, service or farm workers...