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...last-ditch drive in the game's closing minutes provided Crimson football with its most exciting moments of the year. Two Bartolet passes covered 85 yards, and when Bert Messenbaugh hauled in Bartolet's second touchdown pitch of the day, even the writers in the press box, who rarely get excited about anything, were on their feet...
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...Crimson started its last-ditch on the Harvard 15, after Boone McIntyre--for the second time in game--had inexplicably let a Sulli- punt roll between them. On the first , Bartolet threw to Boone on the Harvard 45. He ran ten yards, then lat- to Pete Hart, who was thrown out on the Princeton 33. Then Bartolet tossed a perfect lead pass to Mesbaugh for the score...
...piece on Kennedy is a masterful, last-ditch attempt to play on the accumulated stated and unstated prejudices of the American electorate. Coming in the same issue as Time's critique of partisan columnists, it is doubly distasteful, Kennedy is portrayed as a vacillating politician getting by on looks: "There was, in fact, very little in the Kennedy message to make the crowds bust the barricades, to explain the ecstasy of teenagers or the wild urge of the throngs to touch him." The tired age question is dredged up again: "Like Ike, who is 27 years his senior...
...diplomacy be given a separate and distinct status" in the strategy of the West. If it is not, he warns, economic aid will continue to be used as it has been in the past: "as a reward for a military alliance or a diplomatic concession, or as a last-ditch attempt to retrieve a diplomatic miscalculation... Economic aid, after all, does not just subsidize people; it influences events...