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Varsity captain Keyes consistently ruined Williams' offensive plans. The Eph goalie, Bob Adams, periodically admonished his teammates to "get past the big guy if you have to crawl over him," but Keyes stopped everything. Early in the third quarter he came staggering out of a collision near the Crimson goal, holding both hands to his head and obviously badly dazed. Nevertheless, he stayed in the game...
...near capacity crowd that alternately hissed, shouted, and applauded filled Emerson D last night for what the Harvard Eisenhower Club billed as "the debate of the century." The head of the Massachusetts Communist Party and an "evangelical Baptist" who is executive director of the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade debated the question, "Resolved: That Communists should be expelled from our university faculties." Speaking for the affirmative, Dr. Fred C. Schwarz, a surgeon and psychiatrist from Sydney, Australia, limited his argument to "members of the Communist Party" and contended they should be excluded from faculties both for "their relationship toward truth...
Mudd's goal came near the end of a contest dominated almost entirely by the Crimson offense. Cornell, remembering Larry Ekpebu's two decisive tallies last fall, assigned three men to cover the Crimson center forward. As a result, John McIntosh and Tadgh Sweeney, the varsity's wings, had numerous scoring opportunities and were able to dribble down the field with a minimum of resistance...
Died. Rafael Ignacio Arias Blanco, 53, plump, popular Roman Catholic Archbishop of Caracas, whose pastoral letter (1957), indicting Dictator Perez Jimenez for failing to relieve Venezuela's impoverished masses, triggered the opposition groups into action that toppled the dictator; in an auto accident; near Barcelona, Venezuela...
Fragile Persistence. Kieran's nature walks have centered on Van Cortlandt Park and the Hudson's shore near Spuyten Duyvil, but he did not stick to the man-made nature spots of parks and reserves. Through the asphalt of a parking lot, Kieran has seen emerge the fragile but persistent mustard plant. The most merciless predator of Wall Street is neither bull nor bear, but the peregrine falcon; the swift diving bird of medieval romance roosts in the towers of office buildings and, with pigeons as prey, makes many a killing in the street. Once, covering a football...