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The win, accomplished with the usual precision, made the statistics for Harvard's last three matches extraordinarily impressive. Seven Harvard players won their best-of-five-game matches 3-0. Lou Williams dropped one game to Jon Gruber in the number three match; Alan Terrell beat Wayne Wilner at number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash Team Wins | 12/18/1963 | See Source »

The pallbearers, their white-gloved hands moving in careful precision folded to a tight triangle the flag that had covered Kennedy's coffin for two days. Jackie took it and, hugging it to her breast, took a taper and lighted a blue flame at the foot of the grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Funeral | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

Blurred Nature. Gossipy as a hen, he makes cutting remarks about people who pass the table and then hails them aloud, saying, "You absolutely sweet and adorable man," or "Hello, you sweet son of a bitch." He mimics people with devastating and quite humorous precision. More often, however, he carps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: The Boy Prince | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

Sometimes the author inserts a single, striking philosophic insight into a narrative passage. Writing of his love for foreign cities, he asks "and how came it that pleasure is so intertwined, so at home with Necessity?" Describing a mosque, he "sensed with deep joy the fusion of two great qualities...

Author: By Heather J. Dubrow, | Title: Spanish Journal | 11/14/1963 | See Source »

Executing plays with the precision and punch that forced Dartmouth to yield two weeks ago, Mike Bassett took Harvard 66 yards in 10 plays for a touchdown late in the first period. Poe, Grant, and Bill Grana all contributed solid running, but it was a 20-yard streak by Bassett...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Crimson Downs Tigers, 21-7, in Upset; Victory Rivives Harvard's Title Hopes | 11/9/1963 | See Source »

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