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...Hill, national labor director of the N.A.A.C.P., warns that blacks and unions "are on a collision course." Demonstrations last summer in Chicago, Pittsburgh and Seattle showed what happens when they collide. In Pittsburgh, 40 people were injured in clashes between police and black and white demonstrators. At one site Nate Smith, a former professional boxer and at that time head of a self-help organization called Operation Dig, dragged a superintendent to the edge of a fifth-floor framework and told him, as Ebony magazine reported, "Look, m.f., if you don't hire my men, I'm gonna...
Sprinter Bruce Josten gave Harvard a short lead on the first 100 yards, and Henry Watson and Bob Lawton increased it slightly so that anchorman Howie Burns had a little more than a yard advantage over Yale's outstanding Nate Cartmell...
...meet's keenest competition could center on the individual duel between. Harvard's Bruce Jostin and the Elis' Nate Carmell. Jostin and Carmell have comparable best times in both the 50-yard and 100-yard freestyle. For Harvard to win the meet, Jostin, like everyone else, will have to come through with a clutch performance...
Well, I hate to contradict old Nate right off the bat like this, but as usual, he hasn't got things quite right. A lot has changed here at Harvard since that momentous autumn when Mr. Pusey, doing his damnest to sound like a second-rate Fitzgerald narrator, first suffered unnoticed through a freshman bull session. And although the Freshman Yard, with its predominantly WASP administration, still smacks of a snobbishly genteel Harvard, the incoming freshman can rest assured that his first struggle with the Union's compost-like tapioca will not be interrupted by quick repartee at Katherine Mansfield...
...unsung delights of freshmen week is a wonderful little non-event known as tea with the Pusses. In one valiant effort, Nate and the missus open up their Quincy Street home and you, as a new member of the class of 73, get to queue up and shake their hand before retiring to the punch bowl where a bunch of Episcopal chaplains try to trap you into conversation. It's about the only occasion on which you're apt to find most of your classmates wearing dark, two-piece suits. Personally, I don't remember what the Puse said...