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With the quarter almost ended, the officials awarded the visitors a free kick on a foul in the Harvard some, and for the first time, a pall fell over the this hand of spectators on the sidelines. The Crimson's hitherto untouched goal line was foremost in everybody's mind, and a hush descended as the Exeter forward addressed the ball and Crimson goalkeeper Norris Childs crouched to defend his nets...
Behold a Pale Horse. The bigger they come the harder they pall. This picture, for instance, is very long and very expensive. It was constructed by an important moviemaker (Fred Zinnemann, who also directed From Here to Eternity and High Noon), and it contains an important cast (Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif). But size, as the cannibal said while he munched the midget, isn't everything. Zinnemann's direction is occasional, his characters are trumpery and his actors obviously know it. Worst of all, though, is the picture's plot: something about a Spanish Loyalist guerrilla...
...Most major California newspapers opposed Goldwater, including the staunchly Republican Los Angeles Times, which campaigned against him on Page One. Nearly all of the scores of reporters visiting California for the campaign thought that Rockefeller would win, wrote endlessly of the élan in his camp and of the pall of gloom hanging over the Goldwater forces. Some of this stemmed from the personal political predilections of many of the newsmen. But it was more than that-for, to the reporter who did nothing more than travel around with the candidates, the atmosphere was indeed deceptive...
Masatochi Nagatomi, assistant professor of Buddhist Studies, who has been promoted to associate professor. A Japanese expert in Pall, Tibetan and Sanskrit, he will be associated with the Center for the Study of World Religions and the Harvard-Yenching Institute...
Under the FTC's plan, a TV pitchman might have to say: "Pall Mall's natural mildness is so friendly to your taste"-and then add "Cigarette smoking is dangerous to health. It may cause death from cancer and other diseases." Or a newspaper ad might read: "Not Too Strong, Not Too Light, Viceroy's Got the Taste that's Right . . . Cigarette smoking is a health hazard: the Surgeon General's committee on smoking and health has found that 'Cigarette smoking contributes substantially to mortality from certain specific diseases and to the overall death...