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Halfback Steve Harrison's performance was equally impressive. Harrison gained 121 yards in 10 carries and scored the freshmen's only touchdown on an 82 yard run. He took a pitchout on a routine sweep, cut behind beautiful blocking, and outran the B.C. secondary for the score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.C. Wins, 20-7, Over Yardlings | 10/19/1968 | See Source »

...odds makers had installed U.C.L.A. as an eight-point fa vorite on the strength of a tougher schedule and no losses since the Houston upset. But no one remotely expect ed anything like the slaughter that followed. Attacking from the first tipoff, Coach John Wooden's Bruins outran, outpassed, outshot, and outrebounded the Cougars. Final score: U.C.L.A. 101, Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: College Basketball: Champions Again | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

With first and ten, big Bobby Leo exploded through a mass of tacklers, reversed down the side, and outran a horde of tacklers all the way to the Dartmouth 1, where he was caught. But he still couldn't be stopped, and Leo fell across the line to score after running 64 yards. Jim Babcock kicked the extra point to make it a 7-0 game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The History Of Harvard Sports | 3/28/1968 | See Source »

...eventually developed the superintelligence was the one who in the beginning didn't have the sense to stay in the forests where he had adequate food and protection? If the ape-man became hairless so he could outrun his prey, why didn't the animals who outran the ape-man to escape him become hairless in the same process? Why should the ape-man evolve into a two-legged animal as a result of trying to run faster while the fleetest members of the animal kingdom remained quadrupeds? The answer is found in the fact that evolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 9, 1968 | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

...contains much of interest for a student of guerrilla tactics. Che's ambitions far outran his means to implement them. He wrote that he wanted not only to create a "second Viet Nam" in Bolivia but also to start a guerrilla movement in Argentina. Almost from the outset, however, he was harassed by government forces from without and backsliding Communists from within. His diary bristles with complaints about the Bolivian Communist Party, which he characterizes as "distrustful, disloyal and stupid." For solace, apparently, he wrote some poetry and a short story about a young Communist guerrilla who learns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publishing: Bidding for Che | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

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