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...smother wild pitches with either of his oversized hands, and his bazooka-like pegs prove his pronouncement that "I can throw out any base runner alive." The St. Louis Cardinals' Lou Brock did not believe it until he tried to run on Bench last season and stretch his skein of 21 consecutive stolen bases. End of skein...
...then, however. Where coach Cooney Weiland had only one consistent line at his disposal in January, he now has two and because of Joe Cavanagh's inspired play at defense. Weiland also can field a team that has much better coordination between defense and forwards. Harvard is riding a skein of five consecutive victories and most likely will not lose-except tonight-until the playoffs...
...victory tonight would run Harvard's victory skein to four straight, and keep alive its chances for fourth spot in the ECAC. But if the Crimson loses, it can forget home ice for the playoffs...
Karen's murder was the latest in a grisly skein that has claimed the lives of seven young women in the Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti area in the past two years -five since March. Most of the victims had been sensible, intelligent girls like Karen. Ranging in age from 13 to 23, they included three Eastern Michigan students, two from the University of Michigan, a junior high school student and a high school dropout...
...that the "tightlipped, moralistic and adamant" attitude of administrators and senior professors has "planted very deep seeds of demoralization." Looking beyond the campus, many students are even more distressed. Apparent progress in negotiations over Viet Nam has been too slight to eliminate the war issue. Military spending, poverty, the skein of racial problems-and frequently the basic values of U.S. society-draw more and more criticism. Stephanie Mills, 20, of Mills College in Oakland, Calif., concludes that the only "humane" thing she could do was to avoid bearing children. Miss Mills is no dropped-out radical; she is her class...