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...late in the season, but it appears that the Brown football team is finally getting untracked. Riding the crest of a two-game Ivy League winning streak, the Bruins invade Soldiers' Field today at 1:20 p.m. looking to upset Harvard's championship express...
Tule Lake as the wartime internees knew it is gone. Only vestiges survive. To the west, there is Castle Rock, a jagged mountain of sand and stone upon whose crest is a cross, a more permanent version of the one Japanese Christians had placed there Easter morning 1943. But the barracks that were frigid in winter, broiling in summer, and crowded always are gone. What remains now are concrete foundations and a few scattered sections of chain-link fence topped with strands of barbed wire, forcing the visitors to search their hearts and memories to evoke what it once...
...hundred meters away, behind the crest of Bental, another of the hills, is Merom Golan, one of the 17 Israeli settlements in the Golan. Begun a month after the end of the Six-Day War, Merom Golan now has a population of 300, including 100 children. We passed homes under construction. Each house, finished or not, had its red-and-black-striped bomb shelter. When the war erupted last October, the settlement was evacuated. After four days the men returned to work the land. This year they will harvest the first fruits of the apple and plum trees...
...develop its structure and curricula. Although students had been offered voting powers on the first Rosovsky committee, Pusey appointed no students to the Standing Committee, on which Rosovsky also served. It was at this point--a time when the wave of student radicalism and black militancy began to crest at Harvard-- that the liberal recommendations of the Rosovsky report and the Standing Committee's implementation of them began to face their stiffest challenge from the left...
...When you leave the hill crest you leave the road," Wetzel said. He had been instructed to steer for a telephone pole across the road, which would serve as a bearing to keep him on course when the car touched down. "As the pole loomed in front me, and I got closer and closer, I couldn't help letting out a 'God almighty,'" he said. The race car landed 20 feet in front of the pole and Wetzel pulled through the turn...