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...F.D.R., he reeled off a long list of the ills besetting the nation ("in all the states of the United States there are undernourished men and women and boys and girls") and concluded with the Kennedy-like assertion that therefore "the business of this country is unfinished," the rafters rang more loudly than they had for any of Senator Byrd's polyloquence. And so they did again when Mr. McGovern asked acidly of President Nixon's veto of the education bill, "if it's inflationary to invest dollars in young minds, why then is it not inflationary to build...
...controversial safety came on the game's last play. Both sides had agreed to play until the noon bell rang, but a jet flew overhead as the bell sounded, and though the managers were able to hear it, they did not alert the CRIMSON. The safety came five minutes later...
...morning last week, two men rang the doorbell at the fashionable Montreal home of James R. ("Jasper") Cross, who directs the British trade office in Quebec. "A present for Mr. Cross," said one of the men, displaying a gaily wrapped package. Since her employer had celebrated his 49th birthday only six days earlier, the Portuguese maid unchained the door. With that, one of the men whipped out a revolver and the other pulled an M-1 rifle out of the package...
Shortly before midnight last April 30th, a vicious fight broke out at a party in a hooch at Phan Rang airbase in South Viet Nam. Staff Sergeant James Bush, a hulking 225-pounder, resolved a disagreement over a Vietnamese prostitute by choking a 20-year-old draftee until he foamed at the mouth. Several soldiers pulled Bush away from the private, who ran off into the night. Within the hour, an M-14 bullet slammed through Bush's rib cage and killed...
...dream. It happened one night when I was asleep. It was late Friday night, and the phone rang. It was John Yovicsin, and he'd been having trouble sleeping. "Ben," he said, "I've been turning tomorrow's game over in my mind, and frankly, I'm worried. I wonder if you could come over." So I went. Yovicsin wanted me to do some prediction analysis, and I finally worked it out that he'd win by 12 points. He thanked me, and then I stayed to make sure he'd fall asleep. Well...