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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Information Bureau, and 14 Plympton Street were crammed with rumors and counterrumors about the place of the individual student and the College in general in the war effort. Several false alarms preceded the actual announcement, made just before vacation, and published in a Crimson extra with screaming headlines. Dean Buck used the comment book that famous day to express the University's appreciation--an action which Bob Moskin (his special confidant) thrilled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Faces the Crisis of Another War | 1/24/1973 | See Source »

...think about the welfare of Congress as a whole. Each reasons that "if you don't stick your neck out, you won't get it chopped off." Thus when a decision is tough, argues Oregon's Packwood, Congress may be more than willing to pass the buck to the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Crack in the Constitution | 1/15/1973 | See Source »

...into his inner councils, had not even let him in on the secret of the atom bomb. For a while, Truman floundered, and he never did acquire any sense of personal grandeur. But he did come to understand his office. On his desk, he placed a sign: THE BUCK STOPS HERE. So did pretension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The World of Harry Truman | 1/8/1973 | See Source »

...just passed the buck and thrown the whole thing right back into Corcoran's lap," she added...

Author: By Harry Huri and Peter Shapiro, S | Title: Graham, Hard Times Blast Largey Report For Not Proposing Stronger Police Sanction | 11/29/1972 | See Source »

Eliot House claimed the soccer championship by downing Yale's Pierson College, 2-0. James Buck scored first for Eliot, taking advantage of a loose ball in front of the net. Ben Edes added a second score later on a direct kick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quincy, Eliot House Beat Yale Colleges | 11/22/1972 | See Source »

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