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McLaughry doesn't hide the fact that he hoped Harvard would beat Princeton so the Crimson would overlook Brown the next week. Now, Harvard has to win two games to stay alive in the championship race, and he says, "they may even be out to whip...
...additional sum, those cops who accept pay-offs (and again, reliable estimates are not to be found) are willing to overlook a number of other offenses which may be carried on at whiskey houses -- gambling, prostitution, sale of stolen items. The general rule of thumb: add $5 per man for each additional vice...
Since American manpower in South Viet Nam has been engaged most spectacularly with the Viet Cong or North Vietnamese regulars in the northern half of the country, the daily headlines tend to overlook another sprawling sector of the war: the Mekong Delta below Saigon. In terms of bullets fired and casualties recorded, the Delta is a good deal quieter than it was two years ago. But it has hardly lost its importance...
...could hardly overlook the fact that President Juan Carlos Ongania's new regime had been recognized by at least 41 other countries, including nine of the 20 members of the Organization of American States. The U.S. also seemed satisfied with the way Ongania was setting about the task of rebuilding the inflation-ridden, strife-torn nation. This week Ongania is expected to announce a series of "directives" spelling out a program of austerity and reform. Reports say they will include a sharp cutback on state employment, special export credits to stimulate foreign trade, more public housing, complete overhaul...
...superstitious horror of the chameleon, which in Kikuyu is pronounced kipu. It so happens that the initials of Leftist Oginga Odinga's nascent opposition party, the Kenya People's Union, have the same phonetic pronunciation-a fact that President Jomo Kenyatta's political songwriters did not overlook during the nation's three-week special election campaign. All through Kikuyuland last month, Jomo's ardent KANU party youth-wingers chanted a 20-verse warning against the abhorrent turncoats of the "chameleon party," punctuating each stanza with guttural cries of "moto, moto, moto!"-meaning "Burn, burn, burn...