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Harvard's varsity "B" football squad nearly fumbled the game away yesterday against Northeastern's JV. But Crimson cornerback Mike Ananis stole a last-ditch Husky pass on Harvard's 20 with less than two minutes to play and Harvard hung...
Machine pistols cracked. Sobered, the dozer straightened up, clattered straight into a 5-ft.-deep antitank ditch and through three barbed-wire fences to come to rest against a tree in the Spandau section of West Berlin. From the bulldozer's cab emerged two husky young East Germans, their pregnant wives, and the towheaded three-year...
...planes the shattered Japanese air force was able to supply the pilots were obsolete, Type 97 fixed-landing-gear crates in bad repair. Three of the pilots did eventually get off on Kamikaze missions. But one by one, the other nine on the flight from Ozuki were forced to ditch or crash-land. Except for one pilot who died in a crash, they were still waiting for replacement aircraft when the war ended three months later...
Danang's peace was probably hastened by the newsmen's harrowing experience the night before. If the Buddhist-inspired rebels had been planning a last-ditch stand in the pagoda, they would have done so only if they could have been certain that the press -and world opinion-would blame the Ky forces, and not themselves. When the reporters departed, so did the Buddhists' will to fight...
Lincoln, the fourth Crimson pitcher in the marathon, took over in the ninth and gave up three hits over the last four and one-third innings. His single gave Harvard a 6-4 lead, Holy Cross, in a last ditch rally, cut the margin to one run in the bottom of the thirteenth...