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...CRIMSON softball team, hitless for eight and two-thirds innings, poured across 23 runs in the top of the ninth and smashed a helpless Tocsin squad, 23 to 2. The disarmed Tocsin ten preferred to crawl on its knees to the big Red dugout rather than be annihilated in the CRIMSON holocaust...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Crimson' Ten Bombs Hapless Tocsin, 23-2 | 4/23/1962 | See Source »

...confusing system of scoring is used to compute team totals in the event, and the end result is that anyone who shows up for the races, even if he has to crawl through the gates, can add significant points. Anyone with a remote Harvard connection is eligible to ski for Fair Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Skiers Face Dartmouth | 4/21/1962 | See Source »

While Crimson attackmen and midfielders dropped passes, threw wildly, and missed ground balls, Coach Bruce Munro's stellar defensemen supplied the margin of victory by reducing the Big Red's running game to an unimpressive crawl. Kessler's body blocking along with the stick handling and speed of Grannis, Field and Straus held Cornell to a single goal through the first three periods of play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stickmen Stop Cornell | 4/16/1962 | See Source »

...Witness; its most private disclosures are embarrassing and theatrical. There is something not quite right, for example, in Mrs. Nixon's urging her husband not to withdraw from the ticket during the "Fund Scandal." "If you, in the face of attack," she says, "do not fight back but simply crawl away, you will destroy yourself. Your life will be marred forever and the same will be true of your family, and particularly, your daughters." The troubling notes sound again in the Fund speech; when Mr. Nixon says, "It isn't easy to come before a nationwide audience and bare your...

Author: By Robert W. Gordon, | Title: Mister Nixon | 4/11/1962 | See Source »

...stricken look. "You know," he warbled in the most pitiable understatement of the week, "you can ask a woman to do something, and she doesn't always do it." Hours later came a statement of a sort from the cinema sorceress-a wordless but ostentatiously public pub crawl through Rome with Burton during which they drove, danced and nuzzled till dawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 6, 1962 | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

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