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...Harvard men's rugby team played what Co Captain Kevin Lennon called the worst day of rugby that we have played in the last three years as the ruggers lost to Brown 21-6 in the Ivy League championship game Saturday in Providence...
Said Co-Captain Kevin Lennon, "it was quite a learning tour. We improved from start to finish: everyone learned a great deal of rugby...
...Said Lennon, "This is the most important weekend, but we can't change things. If we can get by this weekend we can field a much better team...
...Lennon successfully fought deportation proceedings that the U.S. Government brought against him on the ground of a 1968 hashish conviction in London. The files indicate FBI concern that Lennon might put together a politically embarrassing anti-Nixon demonstration in Miami. Says an FBI memo of April 21, 1972: "Subject's activities being closely followed, and any information developed indicating violation of federal laws will be immediately furnished to pertinent agencies in an effort to neutralize any disruptive activities of the subject." The bureau even stuffed into its dossier lyrics from Lennon's antiwar songs...
...Lennon suspected Government surveillance, says Elliot Mintz, a long time family friend, but "I'm not sure anyone was aware of the degree." When, for example, the Lennons did not show up in Miami for the G.O.P. Convention, the FBI, according to a memo dated Sept. 28, 1972, photographed the arrest records of all 1,200 people taken into custody during the convention "to make sure John Lennon wasn't arrested." Says Wiener, "It's unbelievable. As if John Lennon could be arrested in Miami and nobody would know about...