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...freshman may think that the major contests of the Harvard football season take place in the Stadium. Upperclassmen know that the really exciting, hard-fought engagements have been fought before the games even began, when they tried to get their tickets. This year could be different. Once the undergraduate masters the detail work and bookkeeping his new booklet requires of him, the coupon booklet system should facilitate distribution considerably...
...Timeless Longing. Kilmuir spoke of the hard-fought past that had led to the "free legal and political systems which are the heritage and pride not only of our two nations but of the Western world, and of all those countries of Asia and Africa that have been nurtured in the noble and fruitful ways of the common law." He went on to evoke and delineate "a doctrine which we both share with a wider community even than that of the common law ... I refer to the doctrine of the law of nature...
Perhaps the most heartening win for the Crimson came early in the match, when Cortesi won his sixth singles match from Yale's Bob McCoy in four hard-fought games, 17-16, 15-17, 15-11, and 18-15. McCoy, characterized by one of his teammates as "a human backboard," was one of Yale's so-called sure wins, since he had been undefeated at his position up until the Harvard match, and Cortesi's win over him, gave the team a strong push towards victory...
...Troika. As polling day approached, the campaign took on the color of a hard-fought and genuine democratic election. Unity Front headquarters sent teams of three candidates (Communist, Peasant, Democrat), called "Troikas," galloping through the suburbs, while hundreds of larger teams descended on the provinces. In Lodz, Aeroclub planes dropped Unity Front leaflets, and Boy Scouts canvassed from door to door. In Warsaw there were two masked balls, with mazurkas and rock 'n' roll, under huge banners: "Remember October achievements when you vote...
...rough and hard-fought contest was a scoreless tie until senior Ted Hollander scored from close-in at 16:22 of the second period. Wylde made it 2 to 0 only 37 seconds later when he converted a goal-mouth pass from Dave Birch...