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Dartmouth College announced yesterday that it would cancel all games scheduled this winter with schools that permit freshmen eligibility...
...held the Administration accountable for any aftereffects that might be caused by the explosion. Taking a more direct approach, a Canadian group chartered a minesweeper, Greenpeace, Too, and sailed from Vancouver for Amchitka, where they intended to anchor outside the three-mile limit in hopes of persuading Washington to cancel the test. Japan, Peru and Sweden have asked that the test be canceled...
Members of the PCPJ steering committee decided to cancel the rally at an open meeting three weeks ago when it became apparent the demonstration might not draw as many supporters as had the spring offensive. "The October 13 rally was just not that successful." Tighe said, citing the Veteran's Day antiwar action as one indicator of a change in feeling among many former Movement supporters...
...when they testify point-blank to the audience, it's personal as well as acted testimony. In that situation, it's difficult for them to speak their own opinions while trying to sustain someone else's identify, and the risk is that personal passion and dramatic skill will cancel each other out. An actor who gets too caught up in a speech can drop out of character. But Ann Whiteside, as Mary Moylan stands out in her management of the problem, letting her temper run wild as she describes her anger at discovering that American planes bombing the Congo...
There was some speculation that he might fly directly to Peking after his meeting with Hirohito. Or that he might name a woman to the Supreme Court. Or that he might yield to protests and cancel a massive nuclear test at Amchitka Island in the Aleutians; Congress last week approved a measure putting the decision to blast or not to blast directly in Nixon's hands...