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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strikes against North Vietnamese bases are in prospect. And, poised on Okinawa ready to head instantly for South Viet Nam, is the U.S. Marine Corps' 9th Expeditionary Brigade. The 7,500-man force presumably would be used for perimeter defense of American military installations-but by no stretch of the imagination could the marines be considered "advisers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: The Meat of the Matter | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

Miller Jim Smith was another Crimson sophomore who shocked the experts. The two-headed Tennessean stayed back during the first seven laps while Yale's Rick Wilmer and favored Jim Warner of Army battled for the lead. Smith came out of nowhere in the stretch to catch Warner, and he was breathing hard down Wilmer's neck when the Eli runner was saved by the tape. The time...

Author: By Philip Ardery, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Trackmen Win Heps in a Runaway | 3/1/1965 | See Source »

McClung's shooting fell off as well; in one stretch he missed three moderately easy shots in a row and finished the game with only 15 points, tied with Dale for top scoring honors...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Basketball Team Loses to Yale, 68-51; Second Half Slump Proves Disastrous | 2/27/1965 | See Source »

With the toughest stretch of the Ivy League campaign behind it, the Harvard wrestling team foresakes league competition temporarily to take on Springfield at 8 p.m. tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Springfield Faces Matmen | 2/17/1965 | See Source »

...February 8, 1964 God smiled on the Harvard quintet. The Crimson scored one of its greatest victories in history on that memorable night by beating Princeton, 88 to 82. But no repeat last year's amazing upset, or even to eke out one victory during this four-game stretch, would require providential intervention that would astound a Jonathan Edwards...

Author: By Richard Andrews, | Title: Quintet Visits Bradley and Company At Start of Season's Worst 2 Weeks | 2/12/1965 | See Source »

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