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Allen Thomas is now ninth, Bob Brown tenth, Landon Thomas eleventh, and Batts Wheeler twelfth. These positions are quite fluid and will probably shift. Thomas is the highest ranking sophomore, Stone, a senior, Wheeler and Brown, juniors. There are fifteen others on the squad, but these look like twelve who will see most of the varsity action. In a team year, the Crimson has an excellent team to defend its national championship...

Author: By Peter G. Palches, | Title: Crimson Squash Team Will Face Season Minus Ufford and Watts | 11/28/1953 | See Source »

Asylum in B.V.D.'s. The revolt, the sixth attempt since Paz Estenssoro himself took power in the revolution of April 1952, was over, except for the usual scramble to safety by the defeated. Fifteen succeeded in getting to airfields, where they commandeered three planes and flew off to Peru and Chile. The revolt's leader. Oscar Unzaga de la Vega, dramatically appeared two days later clawing his way up a river bank behind the Uruguayan embassy for a successful dash to asylum inside. Another leader, in a hospital with wounds, dodged his guards one night, leaped from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: The Senator & the Revolution | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

...must be noted, however, that any assurance probably came to Coach Lloyd Jordan about 17 minutes too early against Brown Saturday. The varsity then led the Bruins 27 to 7. Fifteen minutes later, after heavy substitutions and some charity kicks, Jordan would have traded a good portion of the quick kicks in Harvard history for possession of the ball. Brown had roared back to make the score 27 to 20 and had a first down on the varsity's six yard line...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Eleven Ends Desperate Bruin Surge On Goal Line to Win 27-20 Victory | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...rabbit's nose and containing a special filter. In the murk outside the Tottenham Court tube station, one Londoner-Shipping Clerk Dennis Michaels, 24, was actually seen wearing a gauze mask. Some passers-by stared and laughed. "How's the operation going, Doc?" called one. Fifteen minutes later, Dennis took off his mask. "It might be all right if everyone wore one," he said, "but it just looks silly if you're on your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Smoggles | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

...Boswell was not easily discouraged. He saw Rousseau several more times, though the Frenchman threatened to have him keep his watch out on the table and allow him fifteen minutes. Boswell also brought his moral problems to Rousseau in spite of an unprecedented indifferences on the latter's part. Counseling Boswell was easy, however, as readers of his London Journal will remember: Rousseau advises him to leave the lady to her husband...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth., | Title: The Bore Abroad: Boswell in Europe | 11/4/1953 | See Source »

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