Word: game
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Future. A sharp-faced Communist with piercing, grey-blue eyes, this shadowy policeman probably has more blood on his hands than anybody else alive. He wears inconspicuous grey-blue suits and thick-soled cops' shoes whether escorting commissars, bowing to ladies at diplomatic receptions, or going to soccer games and tennis matches. Proud of his own tennis game at 53, he boasts that he has licked the best man Russia sent to Wimbledon this year (who may only have been playing customer's tennis...
Italy. Left-of-Center Christian Democratic Premier Amintore Fanfani was the victim of an old Italian parliamentary game he used to be very familiar with. He lost two votes on minor issues because right-wing members of his own party voted in secret against him. He called for an open vote of confidence, won it by eight votes. At the first opportunity to vote in secret again-a bill on wholesale food regulations-he lost again last week. By these methods a Premier may survive for a time, but his authority is severely weakened. One day he falls...
Tufts came roaring back in the second half, and with 8:29 remaining in the game the Jumbos hit for seven straight points to cut its deficit to 53-46. Tempers began to flare during the Tufts surge, as Donohue and Jumbo Dick Mapp exchanged punches in a free-ball scramble and when a struggle for a rebound produced a ten-man pile-up under the basket...
With 3:58 to go in the contest, Tufts brought the score to 54-50, but driving layups by Donohue and Harrington matched two more Jumbo scores, and Bob Bowditch scored on a pass from Bob Repetto to ice the game...
...what worries many alumni, faculty members and undergraduates is the possibility that, even as they are cheering themselves hoarse at the game, Harvard may be compromising herself by neglecting the embryo Einstein when seeking the "all-around...