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There just was not enough of Dale Dover to go around last night as Boston College's basketball team, led by captain Terry Driscoll's 35 points and 21 rebounds, overcame the stubborn Crimson, 91-76, at Roberts Center. It was Harvard's third loss in four starts...
...mother described him once as "an intensely religious man, but he shuns even the restrained rituals of the faith. I am sure other Quakers understand my son. They know why he has been the center of so many controversies. Quakers are gentle and tolerant people, but they are also stubborn in defending their opinions and high-minded in pursuing their ideals...
...chooses to be stubborn, the Justice Department can still carry the case to the Supreme Court, provided it files an appeal by next week. Still pending before the ICC are eleven other consolidation proposals. They date all the way back...
...Reconstruction times. Among those antique laws, several prohibit conspiracy to deprive any citizen of his civil rights, and last week a federal judge in Vicksburg concluded that one of man's most basic civil rights is his right to live. U.S. District Court Judge William Harold Cox, a stubborn segregationist, decided that the Ku Klux Klan, and three of its former members accused of killing a Negro, should pay damages...
...economic one. Deputy Prime Minister John McEwen, leader of the Country Party, holds that Australia year by year is "selling off a part of the farm." Gorton's Liberal government denies that, maintains that without such investment Australia would be like Mexico, Bolivia, Indonesia or the Congo, allowing stubborn national pride to strangle national interests. Still, the Liberals would like foreign investors to be less stubborn too. Gorton, who often takes an oar in one of the lifeboat teams that Aussies love, would like to see the same sort of teamwork in the economy. David Fairbairn, Minister for National...