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Last season was by far the most exciting Harvard has had since 1968. The Crimson snatched a share of the Ivy title with Yale by defeating an unbeaten, united Bulldog squad with a last ditch drive in the final frantic minutes to clinch a co-companionship. The win left Harvard with a 7-2 record for the year...
...alternative to serving his prison sentence. "We certainly could use some plumbers in our struggle to establish our water rights," jokes Lucario Padilla, chairman of the eight northern Indian Pueblos Council, but he suggests that Ehrlichman's help would be "more useful in the form of ditch work...
...left town two days ago unnoticed. It ground through a week of general release in the suburbs, unheralded by advertising, overshadowed by Nashville and Jaws, slipping on the projector as Silent Night, Evil Night slid off, making way this week for Aloha, Bobby and Rose. Except for a last ditch run at the Charles, unmentioned in the newspapers. Arthur Penn's new movie came and went like a clerk and his briefcase on the subway...
Gunfire Exchanges. Outside Saigon, the Communists also have problems. A Tass dispatch from South Viet Nam last week confirmed that there have been frequent exchanges of gunfire a few miles north of Saigon between Communist troops and holdout ARVN units. This last-ditch resistance is likely to be short-lived; one member of an anti-Communist army group, in a letter to his family in Saigon, conceded that "we know we have no chance of winning, but we will fight anyway...
Since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, the 101-mile-long canal has been little more than a fortified ditch. The Israeli pullback into the Sinai in the aftermath of the October 1973 war still leaves it open to easy attack. But with both banks now under Egyptian control. President Anwar Sadat gambled that he could open it again. To underscore his seriousness, Sadat also approved a $10 billion five-year plan to rebuild the ruined cities along the canal's banks and construct new airports, rail lines and communications facilities in the area...