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After the game, win or lose, the Band serenades the Crimson gridders outside of Dillon Field House with their football game repetoire of "Ten Thousand," "Harvardiana," "Gridiron King," and so on. Then they "march" up Boylston Street to the Square leading any stragglers that care to join them. The major consequence of these post-game parades is a quasi-massive traffic jam in the middle of Saturday afternoon. No one seems to mind, though...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: The Harvard Band: After Today, What? | 11/22/1969 | See Source »

CONG. A Los Angeles group ran an ad bannered GIVE THE QUARTERBACK A CHANCE, claiming South Viet Nam is the gridiron, Richard Nixon the quarterback, and "only one man can call signals." In Santa Cruz, Calif., Mayor Richard Werner, a 74-year-old veteran of two World Wars, ripped a Viet Cong flag off a residence whose owner made a citizen's arrest of the mayor for malicious mischief. Werner, feeling that his act was entirely justified, pleaded not guilty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Nixon's Unsilent Supporters | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...Paul Keyes, a former writer and co-producer for Laugh-In. Two weeks ago at a meeting of the American Bakers Association, Agnew excused himself by remarking: "The President needs me at the White House. It's autumn, you know, and the leaves need raking." Earlier, at a Gridiron Club dinner, he described the joys of the vice-presidency. "I have my own plane?Air Force 13. It's a glider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: SPIRO AGNEW: THE KING'S TASTER | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...Kirkland gridiron machine dumped Leverett, 6-0, yesterday to take an undisputed first place in the intramural house tackle football standings. as three other matches were slogged out in the cold rain as well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland, Winthrop Elevens Romp To Pace Damp Intramural Action | 10/23/1969 | See Source »

...part of Cat, presumably granted him because his rain-barrel chest wouldn't look scrawny in the locker-room scenes, but everyone else stands around looking sort of embarrassed. The last tackle comes as a welcome relief, as Heston and the film fall one final time to the gridiron with a resounding thud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Time for Medicare | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

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