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American politics once belonged exclusively to the Mayflower Mafia - men with names like Washington, Franklin and Hamilton. But over the past half-century, Capitol Hill has been successfully overrun by ethnics and immigrants of every flag and stripe. So much so that it becomes harder every year to pronounce the names of Senators and Representatives. Taking note of that fact, Congressional Quarterly last week published its own phonetic guide to the hardest names on the hill...
...convertly, bruited notion of awarding Mr. Nixon (or possibly his man Friday, the Herr Geheimrat Prof. Dr. Kissinger) the Nobel Peace Prize is preposterous enough that we can suspect it stems from the balmy brain of some unregenerate cynic, if not from some sycophant claquer of the Agnew stripe. Whoever thought it up fails to realize that so high an honor could have its seamy side, too. Mr. Nixon would find himself in a cheerless company along with men of thought, science, literature, above all, integrity, where plastic "sincerities" and windy rhetoric are not properly appreciated. He would...
...advantage of the Crimson's negative ball control and wheeled and dealed the Green into a 12 point lead, 54-42. But Harvard was just too overbearing on the boards and with Lewis turning in a superb performance under the boards (game high 11 rebounds) and from the charity stripe (7 of 8), the Crimson started to come alive...
...Fitzsimmons converted the shot from the charity stripe giving Harvard a one point advantage, 81-80. Tim Kearns hit a lay-up for Yale to put them back in the lead, but Harvard reeled off eight straight points to an 89-82 lead with 38 seconds left...
...Columbia contest was a very poor showing for the Crimson. The cagers committed 24 turnovers during the game and shot only 36 per cent from the floor. The also could not find the basket on foul shots as they made 41 per cent of their attempts from the charity stripe...