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With victory now clearly within its grasp, the Bruin offense made one last-gasp attempt to give the game away. A third down fumble by halfback Mike Sokolowski was grabbed by Harvard's Joe Sciolla, setting the Crimson offense up at the Brown 24 with 1:09 left in the game...
...enthusiasm, dampened by the inauspiciousness of the early returns, ebbed steadily as the evening wore on. Kerry remained in seclusion most of the night and his absence heightened the anxieties of his supporters. He did not appear until 1:30 a.m. and then only to give a last-gasp, don't-give-up-the-ship statement. Kerry was reserved and grave in his remarks. "It's a very, very close election, he said. There was no sign of encouragement in his voice and his graveness only foreshadowed the concession that he was to make an hour later...
Instead of a rout. Harvard found itself in a tough contest, and it took a pair of breakaway runs by halfback Burelle Duvachelle and some last-gasp defense in the clutch to pull out a tense 14-6 win over Tufts...
...maneuvering on the postal-pay question was the latest flurry of congressional action on Nixon's once-vaunted plan to modernize the mail system by making it a nonpolitical, Government-owned corporation. Several junior members of the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee made a last-gasp effort on behalf of the concept by pushing through a bill embodying the original Nixon proposals. Politically, however, the bill was dead on arrival. Many powerful Congressmen have been opposed all along to corporate reform of the postal system, and they have the votes to defeat any such measure...
...person of Judge Julius Hoffman. By focusing on Hoffman's personality as the cause of the defendants' grossly unjust treatment, it tended by implication to minimize the fundamental injustices of American courts. What would otherwise have appeared to be a matter of straightforward political repression suddenly became the last-gasp salvation of an expiring 74-year...