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...Tigers edged out that one, 5-4. Since then, Harvard has won steadily, building to its rout of the Elis this week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Netmen Defend New England Championship Today | 5/12/1972 | See Source »

Mandel sent in 800 National Guardsmen to rout 2,000 demonstrators who had fought off police and attempted to burn an ROTC armory. At Stanford, police plowed into a column of 1,000 marching students and arrested 207 of them. And at Kent State, campus policemen arrested 200 students who sprawled in a hallway to block entrance to the offices of the university's ROTC instructors. But on most campuses, the crisis managers had only relatively mild crises to manage. Both on Viet Nam and on other issues of race and politics, the students themselves lacked the fervor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Crisis Managers | 5/8/1972 | See Source »

Last night, the Lakers did everything right, and they did it at the best possible time. They took advantage of cold New York shooting at the start of the third period to expand a five-point halftime lead into a 20-point rout...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: The Once Dependable Lakers Are Dependable No Longer | 5/4/1972 | See Source »

With expectations of a close meet vanishing as quickly as the balmy weather, the Harvard track team rebounded strongly from two consecutive losses to soundly thrash Dartmouth yesterday, 112-49. It was a rather routine rout for the Crimson as they captured firsts in 15 of the 18 events...

Author: By Charles B. Straus, | Title: Harvard Thinclads Rout Dartmouth For First Victory of Spring Season | 5/3/1972 | See Source »

...unleashing of the huge B-52s and the smaller, faster fighter-bombers provided no decisive answers for the President. Neither the Nixon Doctrine nor the South Vietnamese army has failed?yet. U.S. airpower has not turned back the North Vietnamese ?yet. If it had prevented an almost certain rout of ARVN, the issue on the battlefields was still in doubt (see story on page 16). A 20,000-man ARVN force led by President Nguyen Van Thieu's personal elite guard, dispatched to relieve An Loc, abandoned the effort 15 miles short of its goal on Highway 13. Late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WAR: The President battles on Three Fronts | 5/1/1972 | See Source »

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