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Legend has it that the formal, mathematically precise gardens which overlook Lake Waban from the shore opposite the college are merely a manifestation of blighted love...
Overnight, the storm blew into a hurricane. Those who before had been inclined to overlook Wagner's minor errors, suddenly began blowing them up to mammoth size. Pro-Wagner forces protested that he was being made the scapegoat for the trustees; anti-Wagner forces replied with demands for his head. Soon partisans of both sides were unable to see anything in the case but angry blacks & whites. Old friends passed on the street without a word and the college chaplain despairingly admitted: "I never knew that so much evil could flow." Wagner himself, showing the strain of the campaign...
Ordinarily, one might easily overlook an Associated Press dispatch of April 22, stating that a Russian ice hockey team played the East German All-Stars. One might also overlook the fact that Communist newspapers "stressed that friendship was the thing and the score was no object." But one cannot overlook the fact that the score of this apparently innocent game of ice hockey...
...mark of the President's own stubborn brand of loyalty that he chose to overlook the damage some of his underlings were causing to the record of his Administration-on which the voters will pass long before the historians get around...
...Jesuits on the staff of 87 are maintained by the order, a fact which President Gianera reckons is worth an endowment of $2,500,000. Moreover, despite its lack of size and money, Santa Clara has turned out its share of well-trained businessmen, teachers and scholars, not to overlook a few movie actors (among them: Andy Devine, Lloyd Nolan, Edmund Lowe...