Word: pittinger
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Although the district selection committee will not decide until this evening on the play-off pairings, informed sources foresee a three-game series pitting Harvard against UMass over the Memorial Day weekend. The winner will play in the NCAA tournament championships June 11-17 in Omaha, Nebraska.
The basketball game was quite similar. Under pressure, down by 15 early in the game, before a large partisan crowd, the Crimson became frustrated. In almost every offensive play, Harvard left its game plan. Sometimes the ball was thrown away on a risky pass, but more often the game resorted...
At the weekend, apprehension intensified with reports of a South Vietnamese attack on Communist forces across the Laotian border. The presumed goal: to dislodge the enemy from his sanctuary and interrupt a heavy flow of supplies, as was done in Cambodia last spring (see THE WORLD). An evident further goal...
The other war in Laos is the war between the Pathet Lao guerilla forces and the central government in Vientiane. In some respects this war resembles the conflict in South Vietnam, pitting a right-wing army that is virtually a creation of the United States against a popular leftist insurgency...
The mention of hotels led to wild tales of past trips. One of the most recent involved a one-night affair during Christmas vacation pitting the wits of New York's Penn Garden Hotel against the brawn of one medium-sized Harvard team, with supporting roles played by various members...