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...Harvard football team survived its own weak pass defense and a rash of penalties Saturday to down the hapless Bruins of Brown by a 31 to 19 score. The defeat ended the season for the Providence eleven and marked the second straight year that the frustrated Bears have been unable to win a game in the Ivy League...
...spirited Crimson soccer team, ignoring a sea of mud and a hapless crew of Tiger defensemen, sailed to a smashing shutout over Princeton Saturday...
...first varsity game against South Carolina, Myers completed 15 straight passes for a new collegiate record, and Northwestern won 37-20. Against hapless...
Last month, when the full extent of the massive Soviet arms buildup became evident, anti-Castro exiles hoped that U.S. policy would change. Manuel Antonio Varona, a leader of the hapless Revolutionary Council that figureheaded the Bay of Pigs invasion, urged the U.S. to recognize an exile government-in-arms, declare it a belligerent, and start pumping in large-scale aid- "just like Moscow is helping Castro." Varona calculated that he could raise a 50,000-man international invasion force, and said that he had the backing of all five Central American governments plus Panama. But the U.S. smothered...
...long curve of her bow. But her weather helm had caused enough concern to signal last week's mast shift. If the shift works, Skipper Jock Sturrock and Gretel's crew will be sailing a new boat; if it does not, the Australians will remain hapless in unruly seas...