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...raging water released from the dam simply demolished the valley. In the dozen miles closest to the dam, its enormous force stripped the soil down to bedrock in places, lifted buildings, cars and trees and hurled them downstream. A frame church was seen riding the flood's crest like a flagship, before being battered to splinters. In one community the only building left standing was the company store. Several bodies were later found floating in the Guyandot some 20 miles downstream...
...Harvard basketball team, riding the crest of a four-game winning streak, takes on Brown tonight at 8 p.m. in the IAB for a game the Crimson must win to keep its hopes of a third-place finish in the League alive...
...first round the strong Crimson sabre and epee teams won five of six bouts, enabling the squad to build an early 6-3 lead. Riding the crest of early success, Harvard swept on in the second round to amass seven more victories to stretch the lead to 13-5. The third round supplied the handful of Harvard fans who wandered into the third-floor fencing room with more of the same, as the Crimson coasted...
While everyone else is enjoying the freedom of Christmas break, Harvard's basketball team plunges into its schedule in earnest. Riding the crest of three wins in a row, the Crimson face Massachusetts Saturday night at the IAB in the first of five holiday contests...
...Matching the right artist and subject gets careful consideration, particularly if the face to be painted is already instantly known or if we choose a symbolic cover instead of a likeness. In May of 1968, when Robert Kennedy was near the crest of his primary election campaign, we selected Pop Artist Roy Lichtenstein. He depicted Kennedy as an all-American hero in a comic book motif. When Raquel Welch was the cover subject in 1969, we might have chosen a glamour specialist. Instead, the assignment went to Frank Gallo, a sculptor with a satiric streak. He rendered Raquel lifesize...