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...Terriers will also have a two-game edge in experience on the Crimson going into the contest. Harvard's only preparation will be hapless Lafayette, while B.U. must first meet Bucknell, Colgate and Temple...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Will Play B.U. Next Year To Renew 20 Year Old Grid Rivalry | 11/23/1966 | See Source »

Twelve good men and true from the Harvard. CRIMSON's utterly undefeated touch football staff unleashed their frenzied talents on the hapless Yale Daily News Saturday morn and wallopped the unfortunates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimeds Plaster Yale News, 23-2 | 11/21/1966 | See Source »

...Objectives. In April 1965, Santo Domingo exploded once again, and Martin was summoned to the White House to serve once again in that hapless country. President Johnson made clear that U.S. actions would be guided by two main objectives: 1) averting a bloodbath and protecting American lives, and 2) preventing a Castro takeover. Hurriedly dispatched to Santo Domingo, Martin spent weary days negotiating with the rebels and mustering the facts to guide U.S. policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Verdict on Santo Domingo | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

...make brief searches for "tangents and sidebars." The offbeat yarns that attract them "fall into several familiar patterns, none of which promises a beat any longer, though collectively they are beaten to death. Any demonstration or riot is surefire copy. Then there is the thing-that-went-wrong story. Hapless civilians have been killed in every war fought by the U.S., but only in Viet Nam, where they are far less common than in France during the invasion or in Korea, do they command front-page treatment every time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War Correspondents: The Basic Flaw in Viet Nam | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

...only other Ivy game pits hapless Columbia against Princeton in what should be almost as much of a bore as the Harvard-Tufts contest...

Author: By Boisfeuillet JONES Jr., | Title: All Ivy Teams But Columbia Romp; Cornell, Yale Face Stiff Opposition | 9/27/1966 | See Source »

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