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...standards. And they will have to be more diplomatic. "There are some policemen today." Powers explained, "who will see a group of kids congregating on a street corner, and will go up to them and say 'Get the fuck off the cornerl'All this does is destroy any rapport the police might have with these kids, and in areas like that around Harvard Square, it would be disastrous. Others would be gentle, but firm, with the kids. Through education and training programs, we have to make sure that something like the first case never happens...
Harvard's success last year was due in great part to the rapport between Bobby Bauer, the captain, and Weiland. Whenever Weiland needed something communicated to the team, Bauer could do it well. He was a good mediator, and this is what Harvard needed desperately this year and never...
When Weiland benched Steve Owen and Dan DeMichele without telling them, and sent a manager to give the message instead, it was as much an indication of lack of rapport with the captain as anything else. This must not, and will not happen next year. If only for the sake of this year's freshmen, who are used to a cohesive team spirit after playing for Billy Cleary, the varsity should stay together emotionally...
...first problem, and one that is completely understandable, is the lack of emotional rapport between coach Cooney Weiland and his players. This is natural. Weiland is in his sixties. He has coached Harvard hockey for two decades, and coached three Boston Bruins clubs to NHL titles before that. He played for the Bruins himself, and therein, I think, lies the problem...
...White House even went so far as to call Nixon's conversations with Pompidou "about the best he ever had" with a foreign leader. The meetings did establish an unusually good personal rapport between Nixon and Pompidou. But all the diplomatic sauce could not conceal the slightly bitter flavor of U.S.French relations. In fact, the visit seemed to underscore the differences between the two nations on Viet Nam and the Middle East...