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...still really psyched," Walsh said last night, adding that today will be the team's big test. With the 1650-yd. freestyle, 100-yd. freestyle and the 50-yd. backstroke still left to do, Gina Stuart and Katie Kelley will join the ranks of Harvard's swimmers, putting all six of the Crimson stars in the water...
Most Americans in the outcountry cannot be expected to join in all the glee. For one thing, good news in Washington is usually bad news for taxpayers elsewhere. For another, Washington's prosperity, by its very nature, is likely to remove the capital even further than ever from the realities of the country. Too much new money along with all that old power have already lent the city a noticeable ambience all its own. The Chicago Daily News recently called it "the most puffed-up, self-important city in the world." And last month New York's Senator Daniel Patrick...
...hears a Strauss waltz coming from the accordion of two minstrels on their way to a local fair. Gavino's self-education begins with his mastery of the accordion and proceeds apace, although he does comply with his father's orders by going off to the mainland to join the army. In the army he learns to read and write in Italian and acquires the desired training as a radio technician...
DONALD C. MOULTON [right], who as vice president for community affairs has had the tough task of representing Harvard's views to the "real world" of Boston and Cambridge, left the ivory tower this week to join the surrounding community. Moulton ended his 15-year Harvard career, which began when he was deputy director of the Department of Buildings and Grounds, to join the Boston real estate firm of Merideth and Grew. President Bok praised Moulton's "heroic service for many years;" Moulton, who frequently took flak from opponents of Harvard's building expansion program, did not discuss his reasons...
...April 1967, Ali had exhausted all of his appeals. At the Houston Induction Center, he refused orders to step forward to join the Army. Within minutes the New York State Athletic Commission rescinded his boxing license; it took the World Boxing Association four hours to do its patriotic duty and take away his title. The State Department confiscated his passport so that he could not travel to nations willing to sanction his fighting. For his stand, Ali was convicted of draft evasion and given a five-year prison sentence. He started the lengthy process of appeal, and discovered that...