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And in Georgia last Saturday, 300 players and spectators became involved in a riot during the Georgia Tech-Auburn game. A questionable decision seems to have been the cause of the fracas. This sort of thing is great for the newsreels but bodes ill for the cause of sport.
The Cominform had stated with blunt finality: "There is no place for the [Roman] Catholic church in the Balkans." Hungary was not strictly Balkan, but it was in the Cominform orbit. Last week Hungary's Communist government won a victory over Hungary's Catholicism. In the midst of...
It was commanded by blue-jawed Walter Audisio, Communist executioner of Benito Mussolini (TIME, April 7, 1947). Audisio rushed up to Tomba, cried: "If you are a gentleman, come outside in the garden." Tomba declined, but the fracas became a free-for-all; even a Communist woman deputy, Laura Diaz...
Police tried to force a mass picket line of 150 members of Local 6, Hotel and Club Employees Union to observe a ruling limiting demonstrators to three at each Club entrance. A short fracas and arrests followed, but no injuries were reported.
No official action has yet been taken on strained Harvard-Yale hockey relations resulting from last Wednesday's New Haven fracas, despite a weekend meeting between William J. Bingham '16 and Eli Director of Athletics Robert Kiphuth.