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Offensively, the Crimson must contend with a Brown zone defense. Against Columbia's zone last week, Harvard moved the ball effectively for numerous lay-ups underneath, and it should do that again tonight...
...Elis have a decent first line in Brian Bird, Greg Rivet, and Greg Luck, but little else. Yale goalie Bill Fitzsimmons was forced to contend with 55 shots in last December's 6-2 loss to the Crimson n Madison Square Garden, and Harvard wasn't even playing very well. Fitzsimmons is Yale's only hope of keeping the score respectable and avoiding a repetition of last year's 9-0 rout in Boston Garden...
...touched by it are calmer. It is the absence of a Washington spectacle like Lyndon Johnson, the refusal to make great promises that cannot be fulfilled. Hopes and desires have diminished and are now more in line with reality. There is in this era of quietude, the Nixon thinkers contend, a grudging growth of belief in the President's pledges to end the war, to quietly integrate the Southern schools, at least to try to curb inflation and reduce unemployment. There is in the mood, the men at the White House believe, a turning at last to the celebration...
...enunciated by Nixon, Agnew, and Del Corso. The students were the enemy, the American Viet Cong, guilty of the crime of being in the way. The Guardsmen had been given a focus for their anger, given live ammunition, and told to take care of the situation. No one can contend that they shot cold-bloodedly, taking out their anger like the hardhats. Undoubtedly they fired in blind, tired, nervous panic. But the shells had been loaded and the powder primed very carefully in Washington and Columbus...
...waiting with their lights off. After ten or 15 prime steers are led up a loading ramp into the trailer, the van roars off. Rustlers have no trouble selling the steers for up to $300 a head at regularly scheduled livestock auctions, some in Georgia and Alabama. Many ranchers contend that a portion of the stolen beef winds up in Florida's resort motels and Mafia-controlled restaurants...