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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boily won a battle with Bob Carr behind the nets and somehow passed to Wakabayashi, who somehow put the puck past Diercks at 13:48. Then Bassi, who can smell a goal like other bears smell honey, half-volleyed a bouncing puck into the lower left corner to spoil Harvard's bid for the tourney's only upset...
...Dave Ferguson's shot from a melee of broken sticks, referees, and players 45 feet out deflected off a Harvard stick into the goal's lower left corner. Ninety seconds later, with Harvard's Chip Otness in the penalty box, Bob Kinasewich bounced a shot perpendicularly off a Crimson defenseman's pads into the nets...
...lower level, the Assembly called for the popular election of hamlet, village, city and provincial leaders, as well as their respective councils. Thus the constitution would reduce the power of the central government, which now appoints nearly all local and provincial officials. As the plan's supporters describe it, it would also strike a telling blow in the war against the Viet Cong. "Since the military took power," said one delegate, "we have seen only corruption at the local and central levels because everyone is appointed. This is an ideological war. People only like men they have elected. This...
...very young nation. In addition the Philippine legal system is appallingly weak. At the top, the Supreme Court's jurisdiction is so all-embracing that the court has an ever-mounting backlog (now three years), and some decisions are reached only after six years. The country's lower courts are so swamped (243,200 cases) that even Manila's generally hardworking judges cannot get around to trying criminal cases for two years. As one result, a professional criminal is almost as immune as a rich man's son. After the five minutes it takes to raise...
Animals, on the other hand, have powerful friends. Last week the International Equestrian Federation announced its decision to shift the three-day Olympics riding competition from Mexico City to Oaxtepec, 45 miles away and about 2,800 ft. lower. "Horses," explained Britain's Prince Philip, president of the I.E.F., are inclined to "go on well beyond the prudent limit of effort." Added another I.E.F. official: "They do not have the common sense that humans do." Of course, if two-legged athletes want to strain their lungs and muscles in Mexico City's thin air-well, that is their...