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...Kennedy will not be the first American layman to receive a private audience with Pope Paul VI. A Republican beat him to it: former Vice President Richard Nixon, 50, who is touring Europe and the Middle East with his family. The visit lasted half an hour, and Nixon, a Quaker, emerged greatly impressed with the new leader of Roman Catholicism. "He is decisive and original. He has a great understanding of world affairs." On the subject of formal U.S. relations with the Vatican, Nixon said that he "personally would like to see very close and continuing contact with the Vatican...
While the midfields were letting in five Quaker goals, the offense was scoring only seven Saturday. Munro will undoubtedly be working on new plays to beef up his attack in today's game...
April showers at noon and a brief Quaker rally later in the day were the sole external threats to Saturday afternoon's lacrosse game, but the varsity still had trouble stopping Pennsylvania in a low-scoring 7-5 contest. Harvard's poor shooting and equally ineffective passing, rather than Quaker prowess, made the Penn outing tougher than it should have been...
...second period was more of the same with the Crimson sandwiching several flashy combinations around generally mediocre play. Mike Tyler, whose scrappy performance gave Harvard ball possession time and again, took the quarter's opening face-off and passed to Gunnoe in Quaker territory. Dodging around his defenseman, Gunnoe put away a high, hard left-handed shot and the score was 4 to 2 after just 18 seconds...
Midfielder Bruce Caputo added another tally mid-way through the period. Showing poise far beyond his minimal game experience, the sophomore middie carefully bounced his shot through a screen of Quaker defensemen. Another Gunnoe-to-Ames combination made it 6-1 before Penn could push through its second goal...