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This 2-1 lead held up through a scary fourth quarter. Harvard's play, which was below par all afternoon, fell even farther apart near the end, and the last ten minutes was one big shooting spree for the Green...
Consider also that Harvard will be playing right on top of a three-hour bus ride; that fullback Karl Lunkenheimer is till out of action and such key performers as Joe Gould, Dudley Blodget, and Bill Schaefer are physically below par; that Williams boasts an undefeated team which last week ended Middlebury's string of 17 straight regular season wins, and you see why Harvard is clearly the underdog...
...gets top talent because Bing is there first, though not always with the most; a few houses, for example in Chicago and San Francisco, in the past have offered principal singers more for a performance; but now the Met's top of $4,000 is on a par with most houses'. Though the state-subsidized houses of Europe do well to schedule a singer a month before a performance, Efficiency Whiz Bing already has most of his 1969 season all booked...
True in His Fashion. Littler is nothing if not true to himself. He did his level best to lose the World Series, but it just wasn't enough. On the final day, going into the 625-yd. par-five 16th hole at the Firestone Country Club, he was leading Geiberger by two strokes, Nicklaus and Casper by four. So what did Gene do? He shanked a little pitch shot into a water hazard, took a double bogey, and dropped back into a tie with Nicklaus-who sank a nine-foot putt for a birdie. When Al Geiberger birdied...
...slogan "Black power!" is meaningless in substance and pernicious in impact. If Stokely Carmichael, 25, who first popularized the cry, were not heading S.N.C.C., said N.A.A.C.P. Chief Roy Wilkins on TV's Meet the Press, he "ought to be on Madison Avenue. He is a public relations man par excellence, and he abounds in the provocative phrase." Rather than submit to the philosophy of black power, many moderates, both white and Negro, have left-or been forced from-CORE and S.N.C.C...