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Magraw said before the committee met, "The push for the Friday extension [in the Fall] was a slick, behind-the scenes affair, low-key and rational." He thought that the Palazzo movement was "just the opposite," cramping the committee's style. "It's not that I like it that way," the HUC head said later. "That is just the way the Masters work. It's regrettable, but that is the way we have to approach this thing to get changes...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Parietals Battle of '67 Might Be Won Next Year | 5/24/1967 | See Source »

Center fielder Lord then struck out swinging, but got to first when the wildly-thrown third strike got past the catcher. Smith jogged in from third on the wild pitch with Harvard's second run. After a slick doubleplay, Pete Karegeannes rescued Hootstein with a sharp single for the third...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Harvard Nine Topples Crusaders Squad, 10-5 | 5/22/1967 | See Source »

Then with one out, N.U. put together three walks and two infield hits for their two runs. Aided by the slick fielding of Dick Manchester, who was immense in the shoes of injured Nelly Houston, peters settled down and crushed the Huskies' comeback hopes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Clobbers N.U.: Peters Wins 11-2 Rout | 5/18/1967 | See Source »

Jefferson is the name of a musical airplane from San Francisco. Marty Balin, Grace Slick, Paul Kather, Jack Cassady, and Jorma Ludwing Kaukonen. Once they played for nothing in the pure air of Haight-Ashbury, a hilly San Francisco neighborhood. Lately they have straightened up a bit, just enough to become the first super-star hippy musicians in America's history. Their rock is harder than the Lovin Spoonful's, their lyrics are heavier than the Rolling Stones', their message is sweeter than the Beatles'--the Jefferson Airplane is closer to where it's at than anyone else...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Alexander, | Title: The Jefferson Airplane Gets You There on Time | 5/15/1967 | See Source »

...could indeed-if not exactly in the way that the ex-boxer from Barbour County anticipates. As a self-declared Populist, Wallace has a slick, simplistic charisma. He appeals to Southerners-and some Northerners as well-who are anti-L.B.J., anti-Big Government, anti-high taxes, anti-intellectual and anti-civil rights. Yet, for all his hopes of hurting the incumbent Democratic Administration, Wallace's campaign next year will in all probability boost Lyndon Johnson's prospects of reelection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Enigma in the South | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

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