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...event of last night's program, the shot put. Kenney broke the five-year-old meet record with a distance of 58'4" on his second toss and held first place until the final round. In dramatic fashion the Crimson captain lofted the sphere 59'7" for a last-ditch victory and a new record. Charlie Ajootian and Bruce Hedendal collected additional points with third and fourth places respectively...

Author: By Richard T. Howe, | Title: Benka and Nosal Post New Marks In GBC Weights | 2/8/1969 | See Source »

...Cambridge City Council, in a last ditch effort to halt the proposed Cambridge Inner Belt Highway, voted last night to organize a massive march on the Massachusetts state house to take place before the end of January...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: City Calls March on State House In Last Effort to Halt Inner Belt | 1/7/1969 | See Source »

...went to the Des Moines Y.M.C.A. with her father to watch her brother in a wrestling match. She walked out to the lobby for a candy bar, and disappeared. Two days later, Anthony E. Williams, a self-styled preacher and accused rapist, calmly led police to a roadside ditch eight miles from Des Moines where her frozen body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Making an Impact | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

Moonlight gathered more as the journey continued toward its continuation. Echoes of Beuchner and Freud and Camus slapping out of the monologue. The girl tripped and fell in a ditch...

Author: By Adele M. Rosen, | Title: A Trip Around With Kenneth Patchen's Mind | 12/17/1968 | See Source »

...East. But always the film turns back to the violence-on the road and off it-that everyone begins to take as a matter of course. The distracted hus band does not even bother to look around while his wife is being raped in a ditch. The scene presumably symbolizes the dehumanized indifference of modern society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Society as a Slaughterhouse | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

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