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Phil Zuckerman's 23 rd goal of the season with 45 seconds left enabled Harvard's lacrosse team to overcome stubborn Yale. 10-9, Saturday on the Business School Field. The win gave the Crimson third place in the Ivy League...
Honecker proved a dutiful deputy to Ulbricht, affecting the same wide-brimmed Panama hats and gray suits that are the old man's trademarks. Politically, Honecker, now 58, is, if anything, even more doctrinaire and rigid than Ulbricht. "Honecker is a stubborn dogmatist," says Werner Baum, a former East German official who defected two years ago. The years of solitary confinement left their mark on Honecker, an obsessively neat man who wears heavy hornrimmed spectacles and is known as "Granite Face" among East Europeans. "If he were not so utterly dedicated to orthodoxy, one could say he was totally...
...curriculum rich in art and music. In the post-Sputnik 1960s, though, Dalton's board joined the national clamor for more academic rigor and became ever more eager for a school that could push children into high-prestige colleges. To tighten up, the board of trustees picked a stubborn new headmaster in 1964. As it turns out, Donald Barr may now be too stubborn to survive...
While the House rejection of the SST was led by Yates, Massachusetts Republican Silvio Conte and Wisconsin Democrat Henry Reuss, the plane's most persistent and effective critic, Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire, loomed large. The stubborn Democrat (see box, page 13) has fought the plane from its inception; he kept feeding its House critics valuable information and staged a last-minute press conference to complain that the Administration was trying to gag one of the plane's scientific opponents: Dr. Gio Gori, of the National Cancer Institute who first agreed, but later refused, to testify about the potential...
...accomplishments and promising starts in some fields, something is missing. To be sure, Richard Nixon can take credit for his reasonably successful conduct of foreign affairs. His attempts to reform vital Government functions such as the welfare system and the Post Office have been thoughtful and innovative. His stubborn tight-money policy to curb inflation, though sound up to a point, eventually became a disappointment. Now he is changing to an expansionary approach, supporting an increase of the money supply and deficit spending. He has done little to conciliate the blacks, and the nation's social problems obviously demand...