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...THAT PRESIDENT NIXON has accepted responsibility -- but not blame --for the Watergate affair, he has adopted a see-no-evil, hear-no-evil, speak-no-evil attitude. He implores the American people to overlook a few mindless campaign shenanigans, so he can return to the sanctity of the Oval Office, unbowed and untarnished...
Pacific Heights is San Francisco's most exclusive section-and it looks it. Pretty young socialites walk their Afghan hounds along well-kept streets. Well-heeled business executives ride by in chauffeured Rolls-Royces. Baronial mansions overlook the rest of the city. The tenants of one of these mansions do not quite fit the neighborhood picture of opulent elegance: they are 170 former drug addicts and ex-convicts who have done time for crimes ranging from petty theft to armed robbery...
...match, repeatedly interrupted by the varsity's quest for workable equipment, was won by Harvard, if one could only find some way to overlook the 9-0 sweep of sabre competition by Columbia. Harvard has little depth in sabre, and if today's performance is any indication of things to come, next year could be bleak for the sabre team...
...foreign soccer players at Harvard wanted to give up soccer this year," he said. People tend to overlook that you have other talents and interests. The players were disgusted that they were treated this way. They're proud -- something like this insults them. In Europe sport is considered an art. Here people just look at you as a soccer player...
Stopping Gaskins is of prime concern to Harrison and his team, but the Crimson must not overlook the Crusaders' frontliners. Jim Schnurr, at 6 ft. 6 in., averages 21 points a game from his forward slot, while at the other forward position, 6 ft. 5 in. Malcolm Moulton has been hitting 11 points per game. Imposing 6 ft. 8 in. center Gene Doyle is the leading rebounder on the squad and has been hitting at a 19-point clip per game...