Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inaugural ball committee ran a contest for the official inaugural song, which was won by Bring Us Together-Go Forward Together, lyrics by Hal Hackaday. The committee turned down dozens of requests to perform from would-be entertainers all over the land, including an acrobatic group, an Illinois woman who claimed to be a coloratura soprano, and a lady from Texas who said she had shouted "Amen!" during a Nixon campaign speech. "A lot of people get the idea that this is some sort of variety show," says Assistant Ball Chairman Henry Berliner...
Ragtag Collection. Driving to the district capital of Lethem, the ranchers and some of their Amerindian employees struck at the airfield, where a 600-yard-long block of buildings houses the police station, power plant, post office and even a slaughterhouse. A cop ran from the station house, wrestled with Jim Hart for Hart's rifle; another rebel shot the cop from behind. When the shooting stopped, five policemen were dead. John Hawkins, a Protestant missionary from Texas, rushed to the airport and ran into Jim Hart. "We've talked enough -we're taking action," Hart shouted...
...three sports (both Hal and Charlie are avid sports enthusiasts; Hall has been at almost every Harvard football game this year, accompanied by a transistor radio and a pretty girl). Hal played the violin in his high school orchestra, and was president of Scarsdale High's General Organization. He ran for that position partially because he faced so much opposition from the faculty and the PTA: they were afraid he would not be able to handle it. "I won," he reports, "and the school is still standing." Hal is also a talented performer: he writes songs, sings, and plays...
...friends who got me 'blind' dates." Here at Harvard he finds it difficult to meet people. Hal uses his readers as contacts, but seldom dates a reader. "You don't get much reading done," he explains, "and, if you break up, you lose a reader." One problem he ran into in his undergraduate days was the type of girl who was willing to go out with a blind boy: "There are two reasons why a girl would go out with me," he said. "Either they were doing their bit for humanity, or they were trying to tick off their parents...
Dartmouth worked the ball to pickering--a 6-3 bulldozer. He went up toward the basket and the shot ran into Hardy's out-stretched hands. In a quick reflex, the Harvard junior controlled the ball. Another foul, but Johnson missed the free-throw. In the scramble that followed, Hardy picked the ball off the floor and layed it in the basket with five seconds to go to clinch the game. For good measure, he blocked the last desperation Dartmouth shot--a dangerous move...