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Harvard played solid lacrosse for three quarters, but suffered another dismal fourth period, and Penn capitalized with four goals in overtime to down the Crimson, 14-10, Saturday on the Business School field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lightweight Crews and Thinclads Capture Season Openers | 4/14/1969 | See Source »

...Zapata's own village today, Womack finds that though the campesinos survive in the sixties, they do not prosper. They have been bypassed, shunted aside by the industrialized Mexico which began under Cárdenas, the man who protected their interests. In Five Families, Oscar Lewis draws a similarly dismal picture--a day in the life of a family in Tepotzlan, one of the Morelos villages, and a day in the life of a Tepotzlan family which has moved to a working-class barrio in Mexico City. Both families continue to exist as their revolutionary ancestors did--marginally, badly...

Author: By Carter Wilson, | Title: Zapata and the Mexican Revolution | 3/19/1969 | See Source »

Last Saturday night, Harvard rolled to an easy 7-2, victory over the same Yale team at the Boston Arena. The Elis have muddled through a dismal season so far, finishing in the Ivy second division. Tonight they have nothing to lose, and will be going all out to pull an upset...

Author: By Stephen F. Kelley, | Title: Crimson Skaters End Season Play; Favorite to Repeat Win Over Elis | 3/1/1969 | See Source »

Peen is accustomed to losing swimming meets. The Quakers are 5-7 overall, and a dismal 1-5 in the Eastern League, but this season still ranks as their finest since...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Mermen Should Drown Quakers In Dartmouth and Yale Warm-up | 3/1/1969 | See Source »

JEREMY LEVEN and his wife were learning how to milk the maximum possible amount of optimism out of the most dismal portents. Even the BAD expose--which Leven felt gave "an inaccurate report by presenting just one incident in a very long situation"--was not without its blessings. Somehow, the show had been divested of all is early advantages, its theatre had become more of a disadvantage than anything else, and, maybe, the situation was just bad enough to make The Light Company Cambridge's newest cause...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: The Light Company Blacks Out | 2/15/1969 | See Source »

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