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...worry when the ball goes into our defending 50 yards," Mabrey said, explaining that her defense's abilities allow her to concentrate on counterattack rather than crossing her fingers against a defensive breakdown...
When the journalist Faye Levine '65 considers her days at Radcliffe, she wastes no time in recalling the response she received to a Crimson article called "The Three Flavors of Radcliffe," a wretched piece of pop-sociology which said Radcliffe students were all peach, chocolate, or lime (a breakdown that corresponds roughly to today's preppies, nerds, and flakes...
McGrath compiled an impressive 100 yards passing during his 15 minutes on the field, but the bulk of that yardage came on the Harvard secondary's only big breakdown of the afternoon--a 24-yard pass from the UMass 31 that Mangarelli carried another 45 yards...
...worse, Jack Greenberg could be seen as a rallying point for any white fears that whites are somehow being asked to alone for sins they do not believe they committed. Jack Greenberg, who has litigated numerous civil rights cases before the Supreme Court, did not decide the ethnic breakdown of the Law School faculty. Why should he be made to suffer...
...Soviet telephone system is definitely overloaded and in need of extensive repairs. Since the Soviets own far fewer computerized switching machines than do most Western telephone systems, they have virtually no back-up equipment when a breakdown occurs. The Soviets claim that their modern direct-dial equipment has been transferred only temporarily from international service, where telephone usage is relatively light, to the domestic network. Said an official of the Ministry of Communications last week: "We will increase the number of lines and reintroduce direct dialing within two years...