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Each of the onlookers in the grandstand got yellow "peace buttons" to wear in their lapels. Each signed individual cards promising to "repent and pray" for the "Chinese, Filipinos and South Sea Islanders whose houses our troops had pillaged and burned, whose properties they looted, whose families they insulted and killed." This humility was echoed over a loud speaker at a baseball game between a badly outclassed team from MacArthur's headquarters and a team from the Japanese Ministry of Trade. "Please," the announcer urged the audience in Japanese, "applaud more loudly for the Americans...
...Paris' Longchamp track, the horses run clockwise, the clotheshorses from the maisons de haute couture run the gauntlet of admiring eyes, and bettors can be heard exchanging tips on both in Urdu, Sudanese, Hindustani or Cambodian. But from under the toppers and turbans in the grandstand comes only an occasional listless Allez! or Vite!; it is across the turf on the grassy reaches of Longchamp's infield that the passion of Parisian racing is concentrated...
...Smith once said, "Look at the record." And the record shows that the grandstand quarterback was wrong. Take his theory that Harvard should have used more end runs. Now look at the facts. Cornell has one of the fastest teams in the country. That means that backer-ups should be able to get to the flanks quickly to squelch end runs. On the Harvard side of the picture, the Crimson's one breakaway runner, Hal Moffie, was out of action. And two men who must throw crucial blocks on end-around plays, quarterback Bill Henry and running guard Howie Houston...
...what about our grandstand quarterback's second suggestion, that Harvard should throw fewer passes. This was a magnificent example of the second guess in action, coming, as it did, hard on the heels of the Cornell touchdown scored by intercepting a Noonan pass to the right flank. What the second-guesser forgot was the Harvard Managed to gain twice as much yardage through the air as on the ground (187 to 91). In fact, lack of defense against short passes was just about the only weakness Cornell showed. It was this that led Valpey to make short passes...
...grandstand quarterback ignored the facts. Perhaps he was trying to impress the girl sitting next to him. Perhaps he sought the approval of a small band of disciples that sat around him. He should stick to student politics-or plumbing...