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Harvard's first-half game had more turnovers than the pastry window at Elsie's, and the man-to-man defense looked like Swiss cheese as Dartmouth made uncontested lay-ups in bunches and threatened to turn the contest into a feast. Only Cy Booker's offense kept the home squad in the game...
...immigration from Europe to Palestine the total Jewish population in 1947 was less than 600,000." Why cynicism? Because Professor Said knows very well that from the early '30s on millions of Jews in Europe were pounding desperately on the gates, and if not for the British imperialists, who kept those gates barred, their lives would have been saved from the Nazi gas chambers...
...nation's other dealings with the rest of the planet. His sister Eleanor was in charge of the State Department's crucial Berlin desk. Allen Dulles, head of the Central Intelligence Agency, controlled a shadow kingdom that raised private armies, deposed Presidents, bribed Kings and generally kept track of the world. The Soviet writer Ilya Ehrenburg once called Allen the most dangerous man in the world and predicted that if he ever succeeded in getting into heaven, he would "be found mining the clouds, shooting up the stars and slaughtering the angels." Allen was delighted...
...November 13, 11 days after the signing of Elko's immunity papers, Marston took aside Associate U.S. Attorney General Michael Egan at a Washington conference of United States Attorneys to ask Egan whether he would be kept on to finish out his term. Egan informed him then of the Eilberg-Carter and Carter-Bell conversations. Three days later, on November 16, Marston met with Russell T. Baker, the number two man in the criminal division of Justice, to tell him about the active status of the investigation into Eilberg's dealings with the Hahnemann Hospital, and to suggest that...
Harvard still had a slim chance of eking out a victory, and Tony Cimmarusti kept those hopes alive by pinning Jeff Linson at 4:15 in the 177-lb. bout for six more Crimson points...