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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Koenig is a senior who throws exceptionally well, especially to deep receivers. His colleague is junior Jim Chasey, who throws accurately, but not as hard and as far as Koenig. Neither has been consistent enough to be a star for coach Bob Blackman, who is at least as well known as Smoky the Bear in Hanover...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennies | 9/24/1969 | See Source »

...population was subjected to all sorts of economic and political liabilities. The early 20th century politicians of the six counties feared that an Irish government would mean an end to the elaborate and delicate system through which the ascendency of the Ulster settler's descendents was maintained. These folk, known as Unionists, organized a small but efficient army to force Britain to reject the idea of Irish Home Rule...

Author: By Shan VAN Vocht, | Title: Ireland: If Joyce Could See It Now | 9/22/1969 | See Source »

...protestant fringe (i. e., Ian Paisley's own special church) which further fanned the rhetorical fires. Nor did it do anything to ban or de-emphasize the Ulster laws providing for the imprisonment without charge of probable traitors, or to de-emphasize the Ulster Auxiliary Police. These auxiliary policemen, known as "B-Specials," are, like the regular Royal Ulster Constabulary, armed. Furthermore, the B-Specials exclude Catholics and their official purpose is to help the regular police beat back those who would subvert the state...

Author: By Shan VAN Vocht, | Title: Ireland: If Joyce Could See It Now | 9/22/1969 | See Source »

...Seltzer, known to most Harvard students as the teacher of Gen Ed courses in drama, is also the most prominent Loob actor and a tutor in Adams House...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Seltzer To Do The Tiger Rag | 9/22/1969 | See Source »

From Big Deal on Madonna Street to How to Steal a Million, film makers have been trying to perfect the genre known in the trade as "caper comedies," films which center around a masterminded robbery. Like most criminals, however, the creators expend all their energies on the heist and not nearly enough building their characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Britannia Waives the Rules | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

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