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With all regulars returning to the lineup Harvard should be favored this afternoon. Recent rule changes by the AAU should produce a much rougher brand of water polo...
...added: 'Gee, we fought, but at least you kept your word.' " Liberal Rose, who figured that Wagner was the man most likely to stop Biaggi or Marchi from becoming mayor, corralled his caucus and rammed through an endorsement of Wagner. Rocky's road was rougher. He had to win over five New York City G.O.P. county leaders and their executive committees. Bronx Leader John Calandra had already denounced Wagner as "a moron." The other leaders more or less shared his view. But Rockefeller summoned all five to Albany, had high state officials work them over...
Crimson foil man Phillipe Bennett and sabre fencer Terry Valenzuela had little trouble making the finals for Harvard, but captain-elect Eugene White found the going in epee to be rougher than he could handle and did not qualify...
Court of Common Pleas Judge D. Donald Jamieson issued an injunction to end the walkout. When the teachers ignored him, the confrontation got rougher. Some 317 teachers were arrested for picketing and will be arraigned for trial next week. Union Negotiators Frank Sullivan and John Ryan were jailed for contempt but were permitted to emerge each morning to continue negotiations, then returned behind bars at night. Teachers who continued to work (about 3,500 of the 13,000) suffered tire slashings and other harassment...
...daily press five years hence if the present trend of government interference and manipulation of the press goes unchallenged. This is precisely why the press, on all levels except management, is so alarmed over the confidentiality question; a defeat for the press at this juncture could foretell rougher days ahead. So you have A.M. Rosenthal writing, "Freedom of the press depends on a reasonable degree of access to information and on confidentiality of news sources, and they go together. Without them you have only freedom to print speeches and handouts and that's not a freedom worth talking about...