Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...season ended with some embarrassing losses, that Harvard should boycott the NCAA playoffs that led to the national tournament. No reason for the action was given; the press was left to supply the creditable but "unofficial" explanation that the Administration objected to the unfair recruiting of Canadian-dominated Western opposing teams. Because the Crimson team would have had it rough in the tourney, the tardy and unexplained decision looked like sour grapes...
...prosecution and police stated their case in the pretrial hearing, the key man was Gordon Arnold Lonsdale, 38. Jowly, confident Lonsdale arrived in London only a few months ago bearing a Canadian passport and birth certificate. As on two prior visits, he rented a small flat at a residential hotel called the White House, styling himself a company director in the hotel register. He had interests in a small London firm, Allo Security Products, makers of remote-control locking mechanisms still under preproduction testing...
...Lonsdale, said the prosecution, was not a Canadian but a Russian. He soon found occasion to journey to Weymouth on Britain's southern coast, where he somehow made contact with Henry Houghton, 55. Ex-Navy Petty Officer Houghton was a clerical officer at the Royal Navy's heavily guarded underwater experimental station at nearby Portland. According to Houghton, Lonsdale identified himself as "Commander Alexander Johnson of the U.S. naval attache's office," and explained that the U.S. was anxious to know if U.S. information supplied to the British was being acted upon...
...Faculty does not have to look that far to find what it is worried about, however. RPI has more than its share of fishy Canadian-player situations. Of the 16 players on this year's RPI roster, nine are Canadians, including the co-captains as well as the bulk of the attack. Of the nine, four are 23 years old, one of whom is a junior (Trevor Kaye). Three of the nine...
...oldest daughter, Maribel, an extremely pretty B.U. student, teamed with Dudley Richards '54, to win the U.S. pairs title. These two did well also in the North American championships, although they finished second to a Canadian pair...