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Yale's awesome offense could muster only one first-half touchdown against Colgate, but clicked for 23 points in the second half to beat the Red Raiders, 30-7. A brutal Bulldog defense forced Colgate to fumble a record nine times in the game. The Elis are undefeated so far this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ivies Show Offensive Muscle; Tigers, Elis, Big Red Win Big | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

...racist and brutal police behavior that we find objectionable and reprehensive is typified by police officers like Burns, Hallice, DeLuca, McCarthy, Boyle, Loder, and Hussey. These officers should be removed from the city payroll for cause...

Author: By Calvin Hicks, | Title: Racism and the Police | 10/1/1974 | See Source »

Basically, The Longest Yard is a cynical, often brutal, crudely stated movie that blends two seemingly unmixable genres-the slice of sadistic prison life and the equally ancient tale of an underdog football team conquering impossible odds to win the Big Game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dirty Eleven | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

...Allende government almost exactly one year ago now rules Chile with an iron fist. Thousands were killed in the aftermath of the coup, and uncounted political prisoners languish in cramped cells, where they are tortured until they "confess." The extensive slums on the edges of Santiago are subject to brutal purges by government troops. The press and other media are rigorously censored, and military leader Gen. Augustus Pinochet says that it may be decades before Chile is "ready" for democracy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chile | 9/20/1974 | See Source »

...when an Islander is accused of committing a brutal crime--one was charged with a homosexual assault last winter that resulted in serious injuries--Islanders are incredulous. They refused to believe the tidbits that trickled from the police, and they attacked publication of the testimony as they watched one of their own embarrassed. They couldn't believe an Islander would do such things, and even if he had, the intrusion of the off-Island system of justice seemed unwarranted. It should have been worked out among neighbors. They are all friends there, and that makes things different...

Author: By Tom Lee, | Title: No Man Is a Vineyard | 9/18/1974 | See Source »

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