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...Perk. While both Pinkney and Carney were unfolding detailed plans to help cure the city's financial problems. Perk based his entire campaign on a law-and-order, anti-corruption, anti-Stokes platform. In a city beset by critical problems of health, housing, and unemployment. Perk had the gall to stand before the City Club four days before the election and announce that his number one priority was improving recreation facilities. He and Carney spent the campaign throwing mud at each other, and Perk's aim proved better. Carney accused Perk of gross negligence in his capacity as County Auditor...
...mile relay, the Penn relay team of Steve Race. Pete Toohey. Mike Gall and Roy Supulski ran 3:1?.2, breaking the old mark of 3:13.4 set by Yale...
...Somewhere in between the who-what-when-where-and-how, Paul Couming is nowhere to be found. Well, why did he do it, why did he avoid trial anyway? "Because of the absurdity of a government which burns babies and does what it does in Indochina and has the gall to put resisters on trial." (Couming quoted in the CRIMSON, February 9, 1971). We all know what it means and it sounds pretty good, but what does it say about Couming? The CRIMSON only has so many inches, and you really can't expect much more than that when there...
...difficult, though, to dislike a curmudgeon who so improbably combines the sensibilities of Spiro Agnew and Herbert Marcuse, a mind endowed with such splenetic fury that it damns kids, television commentators and Silent Majority alike. Any man with the perverse gall to propose raising the national voting age to 30 might be more interesting than his critics think...
Against this accumulation one sees the Indians' dwindling hopes, illuminated by flashes of courage and desperate efforts to res;st slow annihilation. There were the brilliantly waged wars of chiefs Red Cloud. Little Crow. Crazy Horse and Gall, as well as stoic efforts to save their people by Sitting Bull and Black Kettle...