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HARVARD-PRINCETON--If there is any justice in the world this should be a monstrous rout for the Crimson. But since Nixon has done away with justice as we all once knew it, it probably, won't happen. Watch for the Tigers to eliminate the mistakes that have hampered their offense. And Princeton's defense will be its customarily tough self. Still, Harvard has too much for the Princetonians, although it will be far from a rout. Pity. Harvard 24, Princeton...
...building's unrelieved ugliness and monstrous scale have prompted French editorialists, architects and private citizens to rage against it. Partly in response to the public outcry, the Municipal Council has imposed a height limitation of 80 ft. on all new construction in the city. Disagreeing, Aaron says: "Either we want to keep Paris as a museum or we want Paris to live." Now, as a member of a mostly French group that includes the Chase Manhattan Bank, Aaron is negotiating to develop an eight-acre site in the heart of Boston...
Christian's New York is alternately tempting and repulsive, "one monstrous insult to the delicate spirit." A funeral director gladly offers to forget the bill for burying Christian's wife if he will come to work as a front man at the mortuary. An industrialist thinks he can use a little class in the jingle department...
...crimes in Indochina were so brutal and monstrous that there is probably not enough compassion and courage in America to ever come to terms with them. The destruction and the killing in the Middle East in the past three weeks has been terrible, but that kind of warfare was waged in Indochina for ten long years...
Senator John V. Tunney (D-Calif.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, called for an immediate meeting of that committee, saying, "The president has committed a monstrous act and is now openly defying all three branches of government...