Word: fanaticism
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PROVIDENCE, R. I., Feb 10-Harvard has an exasperating habit of playing to the level of its competition. Skating against a mediocre but tenacious Brown team, fired by a fanatic SRO crowd here in Providence, the Crimson blew another game they shouldn't have lost, 3-2.
But Brown skates a tenacious, close-checking game that can frustrate a high-scoring, short-passing game like Harvard's. And when the Crimson takes on the Bruins tonight they will face the added disadvantage of playing in Providence before the Brown fans, who rank with the U. N. H...
Like the boy who cried "Wolf!" Guinea's Marxist President Sékou Touré has called for help in fighting off invasions or coups so many times that people scarcely listen to him any more. Once it was a cabal of teachers and trade unionists from within Guinea...
In Belfast and Londonderry, barbed wire, sandbag bunkers and helmeted troops have been fixtures since Northern Ireland's ancient religious antagonisms flared into violence last summer. In Calcutta and its industrial satellites police have been loath to venture off major arteries since Maoist Naxalites stabbed three of their colleagues to...
Who are the urban guerrillas? No government has ever made a systematic effort to develop a profile. In general, says a U.S. Government specialist, the cell member may fall into any of several categories: "A few are adventurers, in the underground for the hell of it. A few are 'crazies...