Word: springing
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Penn's rowing program had been successful last spring. The Quakers took varsity and freshman titles at the IRA championships and had won the freshman crown at the Eastern Sprints. It is an ambitious program, designed to break the grip Harvard has had on the national title and bring it to Philadelphia. As a reward, and primarily as a final test, Penn sent their excellent varsity heavies, a good four-with-coxswain, and their undefeated freshman heavies to Henley. The experiment failed Badly...
Unwanted Protection. The Defense League's response so far has been to picket public meetings, bait Mayor John Lindsay, provide armed escorts for Jewish teachers in slum neighborhoods, and scuffle with Nazi Party members. J.D.L. also sued to reopen the City College of New York this spring after a student demonstration temporarily closed the campus...
Jacques Duhamel, 44, Agriculture Minister, was an outspoken critic of the Gaullist regime. Centrist Duhamel campaigned energetically against De Gaulle in the 1968 general election, decrying the general's policies regarding NATO and the Middle East and his "ten years of personal power and arrogance." During this spring's presidential campaign, he hesitated between Pompidou and Alain Poher, picked the winning side when Pompidou promised to abolish the propaganda-prone Ministry of Information (a promise that Pompidou kept last week). Handsome and brainy, Duhamel is forthrightly Europe-minded and pro-U.S.-and almost certainly headed for frequent...
...Penn alumni were impressed by President Harnwell's pitch. Still irked at the Penn sit-in, one man declared: "For the time being I am putting the university on probation and withholding my annual contribution." A Harvard graduate of 1944 was even more bitter. After the spring disorders in Cambridge, he wrote to his class-gift chairman demanding his money back...
reason In letters of lead on the Spring...