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...doesn't matter whether the Celtics or the Blazers win. Bill Walton will still love every minute he's on the court. He'll break out in a mammouth grin every time Larry Bird completes an impossible pass or nails a 25-ft. jumper or each time Dennis Johnson makes a tenacious defensive play...
...that is where the documentary--and much current thinking about Vietnam--goes astray. The disastrous American intervention emerged not as an ill-advised adventure doomed from the start, but as a mammouth screw-up. It ended in failure not because America tried to suppress a civil war it could neither control nor understand, but because the military hierarchy malfunctioned and the civilians in command lacked the will power to force matters to a successful conclusion. If only we had not "fought with one hand tied behind our back," America would have won this war just...
...final moment of interest came in the last event of the evening, the 400-yd. freestyle relay, when Hackett entered the water for the first time to swim the opening leg in a challenge match against fellow freshman standout Julian Mack. Hackett, who touched out his mammouth teammate, recorded a time of 46.8, which broke the pool record in the final event to be swum there by the Harvard team...
Football coaches are basically pragmatists, making the most of their best available talent. Given the Elis' two first-rate fullbacks and a mammouth line, it was almost inevitable that the Dynamic System would give way to grind-it-out football. This is just what's happened...
...group has already launched a research project which has unearthed a congressional report of 1959 indicating a mammouth expense of the sort of shelter programs that would do any good. Robert W. Colman '56, a resident in hematology at the Beth Israel Hospital and member of the organization's Project Committee said that the group intends to contact similar organizations in countries throughout the world, including those behind the iron curtain...