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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fernando Gonzales of Harvard and de Mark Meladouchie of Penn. Gonzales established a two-one lead in games, playing steady and intelligent squash. In the fourth game, he fell behind badly and evidently decided to concentrate his energies in the fifth game. In that game, seemingly every point was close to 20 rallies. with Gonzales ahead, 9-7, Melodouchie twisted his wrist and play was delayed for five minutes. When action resumed, Gonzales had lost his edge and ended up losing...
...disastrous performance in cross-country, typically Harvard's weakest event, dropped the Crimson from title contention to fifth place at the close of the first day. Steve Hinkle puffed home eleventh, trailing the fifth-place competitor by just more than a minute in an unusually tight race. Nordic Captain Jim Wolfe ran his best race of the season to finish 20th. Ferner followed in 21st place
...Princeton meet was close--six points separated the two teams--until the 200 individual medley. Tiger swimmers swept four of the next five events to run up a 37-point lead. With four events still to go they had already collected enough points to win the meet...
...hrer came perilously close to carrying out that objective. Beyond all reason, Stalin had rejected overwhelming evidence that the Nazis were preparing an attack; not even the movement of 4,200,000 troops to Russia's borders convinced him. As a result, Nazi infantry and panzer divisions smashed to the outskirts of Leningrad. The unprepared, disorganized Russians sustained unimaginable losses; 28 of their front-line divisions were obliterated. By the time the Germans were finally stopped, the city was surrounded. Its only open access lay to the northeast, across Lake Ladoga, toward Finland...
...accustomed to eating library paste, boiled leather, and bread baked with cottonseed cake, even sawdust and cellulose. Cats and dogs swiftly disappeared. Any stray horse was likely to be set upon and butchered on the hoof by starving citizens. In the final stages of the famine, parents kept a close eye on their children lest they be kidnaped; the "meat patties" that were sold in the Haymarket, Leningrad's slum quarter, sometimes contained human flesh. Salisbury describes how Red Army soldiers, after gunning down two suspected cannibals, found the hocks of five human beings hanging from hooks in their...