Word: finalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Holy Cross co-captains Tom Lamb and Bill Monsevicz were on the sidelines last night when the Sacramento College football team donned the silver and purple Holy Cross jersies for their final season game against the University of Puget Sound...
Almost Too Good. The final results may not be tabulated for weeks. But incomplete returns show Marcos and his Nacionalista Party beating Liberal Party Candidate Sergio Osmeña Jr. by perhaps 1,700,000 out of 7,000,000 votes counted so far. The scope of Marcos' victory was almost embarrassing. As he met with his supporters in Malacañang Palace to claim victory late in the evening of election day, he was leading in every single precinct then reporting. "How can that be?" complained Osmeña. "This is the dirtiest election we have ever...
...school war novelists, never divorces the two. War is not the madness that contradicts life but only the extreme insanity that confirms life's other irrationalities. As he describes Clancy being tracked down, Eastlake's quest is to understand why war figures as a sort of final test. War, he concludes, is the confrontation to end all confrontations, not only between men but between a man and himself. It is mortality at its most unbearable-life with "death ticking off inside...
...12th Street. A crowd that didn't look so much like a bunch of millennial radicals as it looked like a crowd out of a fifties horror movie, Exactly. That was it. We were exactly like one of those mindless crowds that takes to the street during the final reel of every fifties horror movie. Except that there were supposed to be a monster at our rear, but we had no monster. All we had was a bunch of methodical cops, crop-dusting away like mad. It all seemed vaguely ridiculous to be staggering up 12th Street, coughing into your...
...great last year. Harvard was undefeated, they were playing Dowling's Invincible the next afternoon, and the Harvard Band was there at Dillon Field House to salute the squad when it came out for its final practice. George Lalich's father had come all the way from Chicago with gangster hats that read RUB OUT YALE, and was passing them...