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...Harvard play football. But I didn't get to see Harvard play football. Because there were scouts in the stands and besides the films would be going to the opponent next week anyway. It was hopeless. I looked down at my camera. I looked at my fingers wrapped around the film advance lever on my camera. I realized that I couldn't feel the tips of my fingers very well. All to see Harvard play football. And I hadn...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Petering Out | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

...sensitive an issue before an audience Bok already believed to be sympathetic to such bias hardly represent the judicious consideration on which Bok's reputation is supposedly based. Though, as Bok said, he is free to speak his mind on any issue, his speech represented, at best, hopeless naivete and, at worst, insulting opportunism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No ROTC | 9/21/1973 | See Source »

...sensitive an issue before an audience Bok already believed to be sympathetic to such bias hardly represent the judicious consideration on which Bok's reputation is supposedly based. Though, as Bok said, he is free to speak his mind on any issue, his speech represented, at best, hopeless naivete and, at worst, insulting opportunism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No ROTC | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

...situation appears so hopeless that the Australian embassy has evacuated all dependents and has sent hand-delivered letters to all its other nationals living in Phnom-Penh, firmly suggesting that unless urgent business keeps them there, they had better leave as soon as possible. The British have done the same. The incessant bombing by American planes is now so close that the explosions not only rattle the windows of Phnom-Penh's buildings but also shake some interior walls. On the broad park lawns of the capital, military instructors attempt to train new troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: Phnom-Penh's Pulse | 8/6/1973 | See Source »

...Everything has stopped," declared a frustrated Washington attorney. "We've got stuff over in Antitrust and at Treasury. We can't get any decisions. And at the Price Commission it is hopeless. We've got a raft of exceptions we're trying to get settled from Phase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Disarray in the Government | 7/23/1973 | See Source »

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