Word: finished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disappointing loss for coach Bob Harrison's team, which must outdistance Yale in order to finish in the first division of the League. The Crimson is now 1-5 in league play, and 5-12 overall. Yale, with no seniors on the squad, owns a 3-3 Ivy record. Tonight at 8 p.m. Harvard hosts Brown, whom the Elis have downed twice, in a game that the Crimson must...
...English knocked out a rough draft of half the book in New York before Election Day. He shifted to London for seven weeks of fevered final writing, much of the time locked in a room with his closest collaborator, Correspondent Richard Kilian. "We thought we were never going to finish," English says...
When they did finish, the Sunday Times team under Executive Editor Bruce Page was still writing in Manhattan. Page contends that the Times book, to be published in May as An American Melodrama (Viking, $10), will not only be longer but more probing...
...Communist takeover of Eastern Europe after World War II, the Vatican has sought - largely in vain - to anchor the rights of Roman Catholics in Iron Curtain countries through protocol and concordat. Only lately has the realization seeped in that written agreements with Communist countries are the start, not the finish, of diplomacy - and that painful compromises are part of a tough bargain. Four years ago, the Holy See announced an elaborate formal agreement with Hungary that was supposed to mark the beginning of toleration for the country's 7,000,000 Catholics. But priests remained jailed, and episcopal appointments...
...Tony Burkel, a 41-year-old turkey rancher from Greenbush, Minn., and a professional driver for the U.S.'s Polaris Industries Inc., which makes the Polaris snowmobile, was among the first drivers to arrive in Fairbanks, but he got lost in the dense ice fog. Officials at the finish line, who could hear his machine growling aimlessly around the side streets, finally sent out a runner to try to guide him home with a flare. Another contestant gone astray startled onlookers by barreling across the finish line from the opposite direction...