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...humiliated," as he tells it, by the superintendent. He forgot to sign in a female guest one night and the incident was very embarrassing, Palazzo says. He thinks he might have lost the girl because of it. But the incident also started something very big--a fanatic-paced last-ditch drive for the liberalization (or perhaps eradication) of Harvard's parieal rules...
Opponents of the Brookline-Elm route of the Inner Belt have begun a last-ditch campaign to get the Federal Bureau of Public Roads to override the state's choice of the route...
...They made me look like I just dragged myself out of an irrigation ditch," pouted Mrs. Gladys O'Donnell at the federation's biennial convention in Washington, charging that her opponent's forces had doctored her photograph to make her look old and tired beyond her 63 years. "Old war horses," purred a supporter of her opponent, Mrs. Phyllis Schlafly, 42, "must fade away as old soldiers do, and give in to the younger ones...
...Last-Ditch Verdict. Soon after Selma came Johnson's finest hour of putting down lawlessness: the trial of the three Klansmen for gunning down Detroit Housewife Viola Liuzzo on Route 80 after the march. A Lowndes County jury had acquitted Collie Leroy Wilkins, though an FBI informant testified that he saw Wilkins commit the murder...
Rowing defensively at 34, the Crimson managed to stave off a last-ditch effort by Northeastern, and passed over the line a deck length ahead...