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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With winter coming on, Jordan is almost frantically concerned about the 200,000 West Bank refugees who are crowded into makeshift tent camps throughout the country. Most of the camps have been moved from the frigid desert plateau that surrounds Amman (where the temperature at night dips as low as 15°F) to the Jordan River Valley, which is 1,000 ft. below sea level and 30° warmer than the plateau. The valley itself is a treacherous campsite, prone to flash floods and violent sand storms; at one camp last month, a sandstorm shredded more than 600 tents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jordan: Tone v. Substance | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

...their differences, they are as favorable a definition as there is of Harvard football. With luck their spirit may live on. In any case Hallock, with two years of eligibility left after playing for Camp Pendleton will not only live on but will try out for punter and defensive back next season...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: THE SPORTS DOPE | 11/16/1967 | See Source »

Practicing religiously with 25 boys and 300 girls at a twirling camp in Syracuse, Indiana, Tuckwiller worked up the polish and "cocksure, sly, smily" attitude needed to win the contest and eventually to convince the Harvard Band it needed...

Author: By Anne DE Saint phalle, | Title: Sophomore Harpoons Sky To Capture Bag of Laughs | 11/15/1967 | See Source »

Junior Doug Hardin, individual champion in the Big Three affair, and the wiry English captain Jim Baker both have good shots at first place. But Yale's Frank Shorter, Brown's Chip Ennis, Army's Camp and Navy's Dare should provide strong challenges...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Winning Harriers Try For Heptagonal Crown | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

...Cadet Camp paces the West Pointers, but in a meet against Cornell last weekend, the best he could do was second against a Big Red squad which lost the first four places to Harvard in a meet early this season. Army won the race, it should be mentioned, by sweeping places two through nine...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Winning Harriers Try For Heptagonal Crown | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

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