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Tatrallyay, seeded fourth in his pool and 16th overall at the outset of the tournament, stormed through Thursday's preliminary round to win eight bouts against two setbacks. His opening day performance boosted him into a third place standing going into the finals...
Moving into today's second phase of action, each Crimson fencer had moved up in tournament seedings. Geza Tatrallyay, seeded fourth in his pool at the outset of the epee competition, stormed into the lead by the end of the day. Tatrallyay, exuding a quiet confidence, convincingly destroyed all his opening day opponents...
...blatantly one-sided; that is the reason so many of the "respectables" on the Harvard Faculty have refused to serve and will have nothing to do with the appeal procedure in its present form. The only way to insure impartiality is to create an unbiased mechanism from the outset--that is, to have the appeals committee formed by a person or group that in no way has an interest in the outcome of the case. The present procedure not only will produce biased results, but will not be convincing to the rest of the community. I have suggested...
...protect himself Nixon must either convince the nation that his proposals were sound but were sabotaged by Democrats, or he must seek compromises with Congress and claim credit for the resulting legislation. At the outset of the new session, compromise seems to be Nixon's tactic. Says one of his legislative aides: "Our strategy will be to change if necessary, get the President's name on legislation and share the credit rather than fight totally and be hit on the head with it during the campaign...
...should I conclude that the type of protests which occurred were indeed justified? The answer is no because the university above all must be a place where discussion can be carried on in civilized terms. Yet it should have been made clear in the faculty statement from the outset that the signers included people holding the above view. Since it was not. I wish to do so through this letter. Richard A. Musgrave...