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...play of Bill MacKenzie early in the first quarter helped get the Crimson offense untracked and break a 1-1 deadlock. Six minutes into the period, Bruce Bruckmann swept in from midfield and turned a MacKenzie pass into Harvard's second goal. A scant 15 seconds later. MacKenzie found an opening and whistled a quick score past perplexed MIT netminder Singer...
...scant two minutes earlier, Bill Tennis had sent the contest into sudden death when he knotted the score at 8-8 on a 25-yard shot with only five seconds left in the second overtime period...
...Correspondent Peter Jenkins wrote: "South Viet Nam is the latest victim of the most cynical superpower diplomacy of which Henry Kissinger is the outstanding Western exponent ... The meaning of that 'Peace with Honor,' now revealed, strips Henry Kissinger of his own honor." In Latin America, there is scant enthusiasm for Kissinger's scheduled trip to Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela this week. A former Argentine ambassador to the U.S. remarked: "No one down here is thinking that Ford and Kissinger are going to come up with anything new. As far as we're concerned, Kissinger and Ford...
...code machine and possibly a legible code book. They point out that code machines, Western and Russian models alike, are constructed in a manner that enables the operator to reset circuits and insert new encoding or decoding disks at random so that yesterday's code may give scant clue to today's. Even so, influential U.S. cryptologists at the time believed that an examination of the Russian equipment would increase the possibility that the U.S. might finally succeed in breaking Soviet codes, a feat that in 1968 had still defied the best efforts of the American intelligence community...
...written since, this early novel seems positively pastoral. Two seedy stumblebums named Mercier and Camier, forerunners of Estragon and Vladimir in Godot, set out on a mysterious journey through vaguely Irish scenery. Mercier is "a big bony hank with a beard," and Camier has a "red face, scant hair, four chins, protruding paunch, bandy legs, beady pig eyes." Naturally their amblings attract attention. A policeman who sees them warns: "This is a sidewalk, not a circus ring...