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Chain Mail & Battle-Axes. What the book proves in pictures is that, while in the clash of two peoples both may lose, in the clash of two cultures both may gain. When 12,000 Arab troops landed at Gibraltar in A.D. 711, the invaders brought along with their scimitars a civilization that was far in advance of anything found in Europe during the Dark Ages. With the conquering Moslem armies came algebra, advances in medicine, chess, astronomy, paper instead of papyrus. Compared with heavy Romanesque, their architecture seemed to defy gravity, lifting lacy ceilings that appeared to float like airy...
...loss of all-Ivy Steve Diamond, who was carried from the Dartmouth game on a stretcher. Diamond, however, suffered only minor injury to a neck muscle, and he will be ready to start against Penn. Otherwise, Harvard escaped with only the usual bumps and bruises from its title clash with Dartmouth...
Dartmouth reportedly lost two of its key starters in the Crimson clash. Big Green halfback Paul Klungness and end Bob MacLeod sustained knee injuries which Coach Bob Blackman described as serious enough to keep them out for the rest of the season...
...were unhappy and listless in their jobs because of the monopoly on the higher Party positions held by "Old Guard" communists -- those who had been with the Party for 30 and 40 years. Mao also knew that once he died the ambitious Old Guard members under him would clash in a long and devisive fight for the succession...
Harvard, by shutting out previously undefeated Cornell, 21-0, elevated itself to the position as Dartmouth's number-one threat. Dartmouth repeated its big offensive show of the Princeton game by crushing Brown, 49-14. Saturday, Harvard and Dartmouth clash...