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...sophisticated and better educated" than any before it. And more skeptical: Viet Nam had done little for the image of the military profession, and the Navy was still under the cloud of the Pueblo affair. At Annapolis, Calvert found the engineering-oriented curriculum sadly outdated-symptomatic of the "cultural mismatch" between a hidebound service academy and the young men-black as well as white-he wanted to attract. Some black middies (there are now 38) are even jeered when they try to recruit others back home...
...healthy squad is reduced to three of six defensemen, two forward lines, and one goalie, since Joe Dumser is injured. Despite the fact that Harvard is coming off exams and will have only a day or so to skate before Saturday, it will be a horrible, but necessary mismatch...
...tonight's contest pretty much boils down to a mismatch between a squad that will most likely be fighting for the ECAC title and one that will have to struggle to keep above water. The only way that Nortbeastern can win is if Harvard allows it to. It has happened before, but don't bet on its happening tonight...
With all the regulars joining in the party. Harvard jumped out to a crushing 35-9 advantage over the first 12 minutes of the mismatch and then played out the string...
...house sits like a jester in a court of sedate plutocrats. Its chimney is rakishly out of plumb. The roof shingles are a motley mismatch. An attached garage is nothing but a skeleton of stone pillars, and the garden is dominated by a magnificent stand of ragweed. The house shows not its facade but its robust posterior to Heathcote Road, one of the best addresses in New York's pleasant suburban town of Scarsdale...