Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Holy Cross beat Yale in the opener last fall. Yale won the Ivy title and didn't lose another game the whole season. Harvard has suffered injury after injury. If the offensive line can hold off the Crusaders long enough for George Lalich to pick out Pete Varney, Harvard has a shot. Otherwise Holy Cross passer Phil O'Neil may get enough help from the Crimson's inexperienced secondary to carry the day. This is a real pick 'em and, as my father's son. I pick Harvard...
...fall. Steel output has plunged to a five-year low as users of the metal dig into the huge stockpiles accumulated as a hedge against the summer strike that never came. Most steel mills are running at only half of capacity, and steelmen expect further declines before orders pick up again. As a result, the Federal Reserve Board reported last week, the nation's total industrial production fell by 1% in August...
...Street, rents and sells prints and paintings of local artists at very low prices and very good quality. There should be a student art gallery similar to it in Cambridge but since there isn't this one should get twice as much patronage. It is fun, not frightening, to pick out pictures according to your own tastes, instead of watered down versions of commonly accepted great masters...
...embassies are holding briefing sessions to try to convince those who fled to return home. Some Czechoslovaks, especially those who had been caught abroad by the invasion, were indeed returning. But others, notably scientists, professors and artists, sought asylum abroad. Australia sent a Qantas Boeing jetliner to Vienna to pick up 164 refugees, including many scientists and their families, for emigration Down Under. Canada also sent a jet. Under the circumstances, the refugees could hardly be blamed for choosing the freedom that had been so cruelly wrested from their countrymen at home...
...Viet Nam, Ware played a similar role on a larger scale. Not long after he arrived in Saigon, the Communists unleashed their Tet offensive. Within seven hours after its onset, Ware had organized a pick-up force of some nine infantry battalions and assorted other units and led them into positions around Saigon, where they disrupted enemy supply and reinforcement units and killed Communists retreating from the city...