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Clarkson overpowered the Harvard hockey team 4-2 at Watson Rink last night, but the Crimson six staged a gallant effort against one of the best teams in the East...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Powerful Clarkson Six Conquers Harvard, 4-2 | 12/14/1965 | See Source »

...capacity crowd, which booed Clay roundly, objected to referee's decision to stop the action. But Clay, once again, had done just what he had said he would do: he had given the Gallant Rabbit a "good whupping...

Author: By James Toback, | Title: Ali Takes Twelve Rounds To TKO Outclassed Floyd | 11/23/1965 | See Source »

Balanchine's New York City Ballet: "Pretentious and silly," "stiff and neoclassical," "gymnastic and stylistically infelicitous." His dancers: "A memorial should be erected to all the gallant Americans who fell at Covent Garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ballet: No Lousy Little Stories | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

...since, the troupe somehow always managed to bypass England during its repeated tours of Europe. Last week, winding up an eleven-week swing across Europe, the New York City Ballet was back in London. If any memorial was to be erected this time, it would be for all the gallant critics who fell at the feet of Balanchine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ballet: No Lousy Little Stories | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

Tactful Transfer. Still, red-haired Green is a tough, talented envoy who thrives on contrasts and postings where U.S. influence is, to put it mildly, mild. He underwent his apprenticeship as personal secretary to the late, gallant U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Joseph Clark Grew (TIME, June 4, 1965) during the last stormy days before Pearl Harbor. As officer in charge of the U.S. embassy in Seoul in 1961, when General Chung Hee Park unseated the democratically elected President John Chang, Green outspokenly opposed the unconstitutionality of the new government, after which the State Department tactfully transferred him to Hong Kong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: Coping with the Bung | 8/6/1965 | See Source »

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