Word: misses
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...this week, the campus of the University of Mississippi was shattered by riots protesting the admission of the first black student. TIME asked Mississippian Willie Morris, the author (North Toward Home, Terrains of the Heart) and former editor of Harper's magazine, to examine changes at Ole Miss since then...
...federal marshals and National Guardsmen and airborne troops confronting the mob. Two people died, and scores were injured. It was the last battle of the Civil War, the last direct constitutional crisis between national and state authority. James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran, was enrolled as an Ole Miss student the next day. As a native Mississippian, I think of the lines of Yeats...
There will be an anniversary observance at Ole Miss this week, and this suggests much about the transfigurations here. The Ole Miss magazine, sponsored by the student newspaper, is devoting a special issue to the lessons of that catastrophe. There will be a ceremony under the auspices of the university not far from the Lyceum Building, where one may still see the bullet holes in the façades. It has been organized by Lucius Williams, a black vice chancellor. Awards will be presented to distinguished black graduates. Porter Fortune, the chancellor, a Chapel Hill man who since he came...
Injuries: Adjuster Louis Varsames, who hyper extended his knee against. Columbia, missed practice all week, but was able to put in a fall game against UMass. He doesn't expect to miss any time in the future, either...By the way, senior Varsames, the only returning starter in a rapidly maturing Harvard secondary, drew raves from Picket in the post-game press conference...Still no word on Ron Cuccia's status for the Army game. He was in street clothes for UMass...
...offense got less cramped in the second half of the Bentley match. Harvard pressured the Bentley net at the outset of the half, but four penalty corners and a Kate Martin near-miss later, the stickwomen were still in a scoreless deadlock. After 14 minutes of anticipation, Jenney Hunnewell managed to flip the ball to White. White weathered a crowd to the left of the Bentley net to tap in Harvard's first tally...