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...ECAC seeding committee, composed of a group of Eastern collegiate coaches, felt that Boston College had experienced somewhat stiffer competition, and since they had come from behind to vanquish the Crimson last December at McHugh Forum. it seemed that the Eagles had a slight edge...
...prison, $1,000 fine) that forbids public officials to inflict summary punishment. The eighth was accused of perjury for denying that he had struck anyone. All eight policemen have since been tried and acquitted. The eight radicals, charged with violating as well as conspiring to violate the far stiffer antiriot law, represented virtually every brand of insurgency that challenged U.S. politics in the 1960s. Tom Hayden and Rennie Davis were among the founders of Students for a Democratic Society. Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin typified the anarchistic yippies (Youth International Party). David Dellinger was a prominent pacifist; John Froines...
...committee's quick approval seems likely to be repeated by the House as a whole, but the bill will probably face stiffer opposition in the Senate where. Harvard officials privately hope, legislators are somewhat less prone to showboating and somewhat more tired of the Patriot's continual pleas for a stadium. This may not be enough to assure the bill's defeat: Senate President Maurice Donahue may well decide to push hard for its passage, in order to embarrass Gov. Sargent - no friend of Donahue's - by forcing him to veto it or back down from his previous opposition...
...title, the three remaining contenders must do an intricate job of killing each other off, and Harvard must win its last four games. The Crimson should be favored against Penn this week, and should beat Brown at Providence three weeks from now. Princeton and Yale will provide much stiffer opposition...
Whatever he is doing, he is well aware that he is a man leaning into stiffer gales of controversy and challenge than any of his nine predecessors. For all his problems, Laird is remaining remarkably vertical. He has made tactical errors in hard-selling his views, but the Administration won the Senate vote on the antiballistic-missile program, an issue on which he staked his personal prestige. Two of the most antimilitary Democratic Senators, Gaylord Nelson and William Proxmire, praise the Republican Secretary's toughness and intelligence. "Most important," says Proxmire, "is that he does not stand...