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...presidential feelers from Stanford, Amherst and Dartmouth, but this was Harvard, "a quite different case" in Bok's measured words, which drew on "particular loyalties." For the man who called the day after the bust of University Hall (he had urged Pusey not to send in the police) "the saddest day in my life," the decision seemed almost preordained. As Bok told reporters as he and his wife waited for the official phone call on the morning of January 11, 1970 to confirm his selection, "When Harvard asks me to do something, I always seem to be saying...
...saddest, thing about this album is that Forbert does have talent. He showed it in his first album and reveals glimpses of melodic and instrumental imagination in this one. His voice on both albums is a classic rock voice--a rasp both palatable and effective...
...three of these groups have had trouble supplying the rebels in the field, who send back tortuously written pleas for help signed with dozens of thumbprints. One of the saddest realities about the battle is the insurgents' inability to cope with equipment. Although rebel groups have captured Soviet-built tanks, howitzers and even some helicopters, the machinery goes unused because most of the tribesmen do not have the training to operate anything more sophisticated than a bolt-action rifle. Nonetheless, the righteous tenacity of a thousand blood feuds persists. "I am just a mountain man who acts according...
...saddest reports to come from this year's pre-season football camp was the news that Ron Jellison, the fleet California-born running back who sat out last year after fracturing his skull in a 1978 intrasquad scrimmage, had been advised by team doctors not to attempt a comeback...
...aptly of some Labor leaders, "They would really have liked to campaign on the basis of pulling out of Europe." In an election that produced a voter turnout of only 32%, the Tories took 60 of the country's 81 seats, leaving the Laborites with only 17. Saddest of the losers were the Liberals. Though they gained 1.7 million votes, or 13.1% of the British total, the Liberals won no seats at all because Britain eschewed the proportional representation method of allotting seats that prevailed elsewhere...