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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard can win at the Bowl tomorrow, but it must play a game that it has not played yet this fall. It will not have to play a super game, because Yale is not a super team. But Yale is damn good, and there is no way that it could have forgotten its humiliation at Cambridge last fall. Brad Lee, the Eli whose fumble of Harvard's on side kick kept the Crimson alive last fall, will be starting at right guard tomorrow, and he hasn't forgotten...

Author: By John L.??????, | Title: Powers of the Press | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...funny world full of funny freaks. You can't plan on anything. It's all so stupid in the end. I can't do anything anymore. All I want to do is sleep now; and cat now; and drink now; and smoke now; and bet now; and bowl now; and fuck now. I don't want to do anything else anymore. Just those things...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: A Mindblow at the Loeb, A Farewell to the Sixties | 11/17/1969 | See Source »

...Royal one of the most successful college football coaches in history. During his 13-year tenure at Texas, the Longhorns have compiled a won-lost-tied record of 103-28-4. They have won five Southwest Conference titles and one national championship, and have appeared in nine post-season bowl games. Royal was named Coach of the Year by the Football Writers Association of America in 1961 and 1963; he is the only coach ever to win that honor twice. He may be on his way to a third title. Recently his boys whipped conference archrival Southern Methodist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: The Country Slicker | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

Campus Fixture. Royal's Grapes of Wrath accent is no affectation. He grew up in Hollis, Okla. (pop. 3,006), on the edge of the state's dust bowl. He and his three brothers and one sister had to sleep with wet rags across their faces to filter the air they breathed. "We had a little place right on Highway 62," he recalls. "I used to stand in the front yard and watch the trucks go by, jammed with people heading for California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: The Country Slicker | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...lady I will call Joan Adkins lives in Mission Hills. On her color television set is a bowl of water with a statuette of Jesus submerged in it. She turns out to be the extreme in the antismog movement. "The smog here is very bad," she tells me. "I've been fighting it for twelve years. I have to put cream in my nasal passages, but sometimes my nose swells up anyway, and I chew gum. They say that helps. And I have to keep washing out my eyes. You know, they say that smog can affect your mental outlook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: CANDIDE CAMERA: IN SEARCH OF THE SOUL | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

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