Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the match was played in the Harvard half of the field, but the Crimson fullback trio of Bob Gray, Bill Brock, and Phil Axten kept the Quakers from a clear shot on goalie Bill Meyers...
...members of the current city council-Cornelia B. Wheeler (CCA) and Bernard Goldberg (Ind.)-are not running for re-election; where their votes go will be important in determining the other two members of the new council. In Wheeler's case, it is pretty clear: By a process somewhat akin to a laying-on of hands, she has been backing Robert P. Moncreiff, a former Rhodes Scholar and like her, CCA and a Republican. With this vote, Moncreiff seems to have a pretty good chance of election. The old Goldberg vote, on the other hand, will probably scatter; some...
Mathematical elimination from the Ivy title race may still be a game or two, perhaps even three, away for Harvard's football team, but it became unmistakably clear Saturday that only a major catastrophe will prevent Dartmouth from earning the championship...
...when Harvard and Pennsylvania meet at Franklin Field today, the stakes are all too clear. The loser will leave the field with three defeats in Ivy play, and with Dartmouth. Yale and Princeton still unbeaten, three defeats could be enough to doom the loser to the bottom half of the League...
Those are the bare facts, but as I followed Francis around the coffee circuit which is the backbone of local politics, it became clear that what looked good on paper was better in person. I suppose the word is smooth, or polished, but he really isn't. What he is is good with a wide range of people. From the eighty year old ladies on Brattle Street to the young blacks in the city he has a feeling for what people respond to and he gives it to them...