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The offense, while clicking for five goals against a porous MIT defense, looked disorganized. This is no doubt because the starters lack the time and experience playing with each other and a knowledge of each other's moves that is tantamount to offensive precision. As coach Brace Munro remarked earlier...

Author: By Charles B. Straus, | Title: Harvard Soccer Team Faces Williams In the Crimson's First Crucial Game | 9/30/1972 | See Source »

THE 1972 POLITICAL atmosphere reeks with the Watergate scandal, "cocktails and bologna sandwiches," ITT-Nixon fumblings, Eagleton disorders, subdued Agnewian imagery, campaign staff bickering, and an obsession with the impact of polls. In 1970, George McGovern began his campaign stressing issues, especially Vietnam; while last July President Nixon called this...

Author: By David Schaffer, | Title: Standing on Nothing | 9/30/1972 | See Source »

The precision teamwork necessary for a run at the Ivy title, however, probably won't be expected or needed today against the Engineers, who have never posed a serious threat to Harvard's Cambridge soccer hegemony. "We usually show up and expect to win." Munro said yesterday. "Once in a...

Author: By Charles B. Straus, | Title: Unproven Soccer Squad Opens Season With MIT | 9/27/1972 | See Source »

A month later, Refugio was found with 30 bullets in his body. An ex-paratrooper from Tennessee, who was pushing narcotics in Nuevo Laredo, was suspected of the killing and dispatched with the mathematical precision that has become a trademark of the war, and particularly of the Reyes Pruneda gang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The Narcotics War of Nuevo Laredo | 9/25/1972 | See Source »

The movie has several excellent scenes, most prominently an attempted bank robbery staged with deadly precision, and fine performances by Scott and Keach, much more effective here than in Fat City. Smaller roles have been cast with a fine eye for character detail. Clifton James as a gruff old police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Policeman's Lot | 9/4/1972 | See Source »

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