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...basis of Tuesday's performance alone, Harvard can be rated no better than second to Northeastern, the indoor GBS titlist, but it is difficult to assess the effect of the victory on the Crimson, or its possible result in the Sunday meet on B.C.'s tartan track...
...many of the country's track coaches the Penn Relays is the most important meet of the Spring. 134 colleges have entered teams, and a two-day total of 136 events have been scheduled for the tartan oval at Franklin Field. 6000 athletes are expected to compete, and for a small number the meet will be an important stop on the road to Munich and the Summer Olympics...
...impressive display of solidarity, 170,000 workers-notably not including police or civil servants -walked off their jobs last week. Belfast was closed up tight. Most of the electricity was shut off, telephone service was sporadic; and there were no buses, trains or mail deliveries. At one point "tartan gangs" of Protestant youths roamed through Belfast's streets, shouting curses in Catholic neighborhoods and in one case partially destroying a parochial school. The Protestant violence ended as abruptly as the strike itself, and Ulstermen returned to work next...
...hands on deck, steamed out of Singapore harbor under a cover of 50 planes and helicopters. Shortly before, the British had staged their final parade at Kangaw Barracks-Royal Navy sailors in the lead, followed by Royal Marines in desert khaki and pith helmets, Royal Highland Fusiliers in tartan caps, men of the Royal Air Force and the Royal Artillery. "It is quite an occasion-an historic occasion," said Air Chief Marshal Sir Brian Burnett, the last head of the British Far East Command...
FROM a door of Chicago's cavernous McCormick Place came the glorious skirl of bagpipes and the thunderous roll of drums. Smartly clad in black jackets and Kennedy tartan kilts, the Eleventh Ward Shannon Rovers began their march down the 600-ft.-long red carpet. The walls reverberated to the strains of the Garry Owen march, the favorite tune of the guest of honor, the present and almost certainly future mayor of the city of Chicago-Richard J. Daley...