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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brown has enjoyed remarkable success in hexing the Crimson for the past several seasons using a rough defense-oriented style that seems to throw Harvard off its precision, position-play strategy quite often. Last winter, the Bruins held a 6-4 advantage over the Crimson at Meehan Rink before succumbing in overtime, and when the two squads met in Cambridge later in the season, it was nearly the same thing although Harvard won a little more comfortably...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Harvard Six Plays Brown In Tough Contest Tonight | 12/13/1969 | See Source »

Personally, he has none of the glowing appeal that helps create forceful political personalities; he does not exude the image of the dashing young prince come to lift the curtain of darkness and gloom. He talks with a lisp and his face is rough and lumpy...

Author: By Ronald H. Janis, | Title: The Education of Jesse Unruh | 12/11/1969 | See Source »

...politician running for any other office - are overbalanced by an important undercurrent in his intellectual life. It is an undercurrent which makes Unruh more than the sum total of his past and his appearance. It is the undercurrent of experience, the education of Jesse Unruh, which smoothes down the rough spots in Unruh's very tangible past...

Author: By Ronald H. Janis, | Title: The Education of Jesse Unruh | 12/11/1969 | See Source »

...FIGURE of 20 per cent is an arbitrary one, based on a rough percentage of black and other minority people in the nation's population. It had become clear in the course of the struggle against the construction industry that blacks must demand that a specific minimum number of workers be hired. Phrases such as "increased participation," "substantially larger numbers," "renewed efforts," and "good faith" (reminiscent of those Harvard has used) have too often proved empty rhetoric in the past...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Occupation | 12/9/1969 | See Source »

Northeastern has always been a pesky squad. usually shallow in talent. but it perennially seems to knock Harvard off its precise. position-play strategy. It usually scores on its opponents defensive lapses, and employs a rough, Canadian-style checking game to keep the enemy offense from cohering. It achieved both goals last night...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Icemen Mush By Huskies; McManama Scores Twice | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

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