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...Kennedy Platz on a chill grey afternoon swarmed 100,000 West Berliners-a crowd ten times larger than the students had been able to assemble. They brought homemade placards, shouted encouragement to the U.S. and set fire to Communist flags. Some incensed demonstrators even assaulted a score of hapless hippies. "We won't let our free Berlin be trampled," Schütz told the crowd. "We fight back...
Harvard's hapless hoopsters played Princeton again last night. You know who won. But Coach Floyd Wilson's boys partly redeemed themselves, showing flashes of brilliance and losing respectably...
Banking on some much-needed help from 6-3 jumping-jack Ernie Hardy, Harvard basketball coach Floyd Wilson leads his hapless forces on a weekend excursion to Cornell and Columbia...
...going to take a long, hard look" at himself, and Vince Lombardi, 54, has the most piercing gaze in the game. What he saw convinced him to step down as coach of the champion Green Bay Packers after a nine-year reign during which he drove a hapless, last-place club to a record of 97 victories, 31 losses, four ties, six conference titles, five National Football League championships, and two triumphs in the Super Bowl. Lombardi will devote all his time to his other job as general manager of the profitable Packers (1966 net: $827,439), leaving the coaching...
Yardling icemen wasted a 4-1 lead in the last period to drop a frustrating 6-5 decision to the Boston College freshmen yesterday. It was the second loss in a row for the hapless Crimson...