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...first of Carrabino's two crucial buckets resulted from a gorgeous shovel pass in a congested lane from freshman guard Keith Webster Webster is Harvard's newest starter replacing Co-Captain Ken Plutnicki--and in his appearances so far he has demonstrated a Calvin Dixon-like ability to handle the ball well and home in on the basket for the shot...
...kind of work that makes a man dream that his right hand has turned into a power drill, that makes a woman dream that brass will never tarnish, never again. Tough labor, requiring a backbone tough as hickory. (At the risk of irrelevancy, it comes to mind that Calvin Coolidge, a Vermonter, was presented with a walking cane by Vermonters when he became President...
Some funny business is going on at Empire Industries. When Chairman Calvin Cromwell schedules an emergency board meeting, the vice presidents fly into a paranoid panic. The terrified executives are certain he has discovered their illicit affairs, embezzlement and Government bribes. A secretary prepares for the meeting by putting airsickness bags around the board table and supplying Valium and smelling salts. A ranting Cromwell finally tells his subordinates, "Someone on this board is responsible, and they're going to hang...
...sure, the sort of anticipation that had preceded the 1968 Game, toward which both teams had swaggered without a loss. The '68 astonishment still reverberates: Quarterback Brian Bowling, the model for Garry Trudeau's B.D. in the Doonesbury comic strip, and big Calvin Hill, the star halfback who went on to play pro football for the Dallas Cowboys, led Yale to a 29-13 advantage with less than eleven minutes to go. Yalies in the crowd began waving their handkerchiefs at the Harvards across the field, in The Game's customary gesture of well-bred derision. Then...
...therein lies the Crimson's biggest question mark. Not so much because sophomore Pat Smith--the starter--and junior Kevin Boyle--the very able backup--don't have the talent to replace the graduated Calvin Dixon...