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Northeastern coach Irwin Cohen admits this is a year of reconstruction for his squad, which finished 7-1 last Fall. "Harvard is probably one of the roughest we'll face," he said yesterday. "They look like championship material...
...were not Viet Cong captives but trainees in a gruelingly realistic prisoner-of-war course at Fort Sill, Okla. Roughest of its kind in the Army, the course is designed to toughen artillery-officer candidates for the kind of torture and humiliation under which many prisoners cracked in Korea. In the year since the course began, about 6,000 officers have completed...
That first year was the roughest. Neither Harvard nor Radcliffe would let students live with the patients, and the house mysteriously burned down. But more funds were raised, the house at 11 Marie Avenue was bought, and first Radcliffe, then Harvard, capitulated. The students moved in, and Wellmet began to have a past and a future...
Another member of our Washington bureau made news himself last week. On the Cal 40 sloop, Lancetilla II, owned and skippered by him, Economics Correspondent Juan Cameron won the Annapolis-Newport regatta, which this year proved to be one of the roughest in memory. Among Cameron's crew were John Wilhelm, also of the Washington bureau, Norris Brock, a TIME-LIFE Broadcast cameraman, Carter Brown, assistant director of the National Gallery, and Robert Amory, former deputy director of the CIA. Gales of up to 55 miles closed in about a day out, and from the time they left Chesapeake...
...bred cynicism. One of the brightest, but most belligerent white boys, calls the project "kindergarten for grown-up kiddies-Mouseketeer meetings, all that conforming jazz." He says he wants to make it "on my own," hopes to transfer to Southern Cal. Youths from the Negro ghettos have had the roughest time adjusting, partly because nearly all-white Bellingham is strange to them. Concedes one faculty adviser: "Bellingham at night, when the time comes for recreation, is no place for a Negro...