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More than most Yale partisans, Cozza remembers the near-agony of last season's finger-nail finale. He respects Harvard and his respect increases measurably everytime he reviews the films of that cliff hanger...
King Lear used to be regarded as one of Shakespeare's library plays: great, but virtually unplayable. Presenting this epic drama, with its almost inhumanly difficult title role, is a little like climbing the sheer face of a formidable, treacherous, icy cliff. Nonetheless, some curious infusion of fatality in the modern consciousness seems to make the play accessible to contemporary audiences. And to modern actors...
Illinois was a real cliff-hanger. Humphrey took a strong lead with the Chicago-Cook County Democratic vote, but Nixon came on later with the downstate returns. When just over half the vote was in, Nixon moved into the lead to stay...
...Jersey, expected to give Wallace substantial blue-collar support, and Nixon a majority of from 100,000 to 300,000 votes, turned out to be a cliff-hanger. Wallace ran poorly, with only about ten per cent of the vote, and Humphrey support materialized in the last week of the campaign. The state eventually went to Nixon, however, by about 50,000 votes early this morning...
Penn's entire campus is burning with football fever following last Saturday's 19-14 cliff-hanger win over Princeton. The victory assured the perenially-punchless Quakers of their first winning season since...