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Last fall, Harvard trailed the heavily favored Cadet contingent by six points with only the 400-yard freestyle relay remaining. A Crimson victory in the relay would have given the underdogs the meet by one point, but Harvard's Bill Shrout was edged by one foot in the final lap. The Crimson have not beaten Army since...
...front, carrying a commando's short-stock M-16 rifle in one hand and cakes and gifts for the troops in the other. Two months ago, she and her husband were both killed in a helicopter crash en route to the besieged Special Forces camp at Due Lap...
Before swinging into the last lap of his campaign, Hubert Humphrey paused to reflect on what had gone wrong, what part his own personality had played in his troubles and how he still hopes to govern the U.S. During an interview with Humphrey in Washington, TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey found him newly self-confident, by turns introspective and expansive, self-pitying and resolutely cheery. Humphrey naturally stressed his role as the underdog, tended to blame outside factors for his difficulties, and spoke with such unwarranted optimism that his words occasionally took on an aura of unreality. Nonetheless, they mirror Humphrey...
...This is the first time that this has been dropped in the university's lap," Robert E. Gentry, director of the Harvard Office for Research Contracts, said yesterday. In the past, almost all research money has been awarded to individual professors heading projects, and the money has therefore been negotiated on a grant-by-grant basis. But, after the federal spending cuts, NSF set up fund ceilings for each institution--in Harvard's case, $5.395 million--based on the institution's expected allocations minus a certain percentage...
...historic Communist stronghold where the Viet Cong might attempt to set up a provisional government if they could win control of the city even temporarily. If that move succeeded, its propaganda value would be considerable. It would certainly make far more sense than assaults on such places as Due Lap and Tay Ninh...