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...narrow Henley course allows only two crews to race at a time, and the loser is eliminated without benefit of a repecharge. Blind draws take the place of seedings, and if Harvard happens to draw Penn early they could be in trouble...
...public tragedies tend to become cautionary tales. Survivors of Munich have learned a lesson by heart: appeasement is a loser's game. But today, most men are not so sure as they once were of just what constitutes "appeasement"-or whether a policy of "get tough" is a winner's game either. Still, if the tactical lessons of Munich seem less and less simple to apply, its moral implications are not. The tragic events of history, so often in retrospect accepted as inevitable, were shaped by human will and wisdom-or the lack of them...
...something happened in the locker room at half time, something which changed that team from a loser to a winner. It didn't look it as the Cross came out in the third quarter to run the score up to 20-12, but those who know Harvard football could sense the comeback. We found some new heroes to replace those lost to graduation and injury. Most important the new faces had the poise and the confidence to come back, and keep coming back all year. Lalich found a couple of sophomore ends, Pete Varney and Bruce Freeman (of Redlands, California...
...outcome decisive. By 53.3% to 46.7%, Los Angeles voters last week elected Mayor Sam Yorty to a third term, repudiating both their own primary verdict of the previous month and election-eve opinion surveys. There was a palpable realization that something was missing. No gracious concession came from the loser, Negro Councilman Thomas Bradley, who said that the preceding weeks had witnessed "the dirtiest campaign in this city's history." Yorty, normally so jaunty when things break right for him, was no Struttin' Sam on election night. Surrounded by bodyguards, he made a perfunctory appearance before his supporters...
Capua's race relations deteriorate. The compulsive winner becomes a perpetual loser-until the day of the big one, the Indy 500. Director James Goldstone even manages to make a wreck of the most celebrated American auto race. Progress is as circular and unsurprising as the movement of a minute hand; the script is reminiscent of a radio play, with an announcer booming: "It's a different Frank Capua out there today!" When the film casts a sociological eye, it is toward such riddled targets as baton-twirling teeny-boppers and accident-hungry spectators...