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...trying to show that the U.S. itself is guilty of offenses against human rights. Unfortunately, the propagandists have not had to invent many of their charges. Racial discrimination and the Watergate scandal alone provide plenty of ammunition -despite the vast difference between an established policy of repression and a skein of individual abuses; every such event is grist for the Soviet newspapers...
...squad is preparing to lengthen its win skein by going to Medellin, Colombia, for a two week training trip. The mermen hope to acclimate their lungs to thin air since the altitude is 6,000 feet in Medellin...
...weren't as strong as we should have been," coach Satch Sanders said afterwards. "You have to control a quick, running team like that." The hoopsters did just that as they rattled off a scoring skein of their own every time the Beavers threatened...
MAYBE HOROVITZ'S PLAY qualifies as social realism, exposes the plight of urban youth, lays a slice-of-life on you--pick one of the above and man your stations, please. Your assignments should be pretty clear: each critic prises a skein of dialogue from the script and analyzes its relevance from the vantage of the ideological crow's nest he has shimmied into...
Dartmouth's Big Green won its sixth consecutive game, including three this year, with a 45-7 mauling of Holy Cross, and Columbia won its second in a row for the first time in recent memory by beating Penn 14-10. Cornell, meanwhile, kept an impressive losing skein intact by falling to Rutgers for its tenth defeat...