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...Te Executive Committee of Philips Brooks House Association jumped to a quick lead on a safety, but the Harvard CRIMSON bounced back for a 23-2 win in the 63rd touch football game that has been played annually ever since PBH was founded. "We would have won if we didn't have to use that girl on our team," said PBH captain Bear Barnes...
...kill the host and offer him as a sacrificial victim to the gods. Then, swiftly as it arrived, the mysterious ban is lifted. Joyously the prisoners pour out the door and blink at the unfamiliar sun. Days later, to commemorate their escape, the survivors reassemble to celebrate a solemn Te Deum Mass in gratitude for their rescue. As the ritual ends, they head for the church doors-and find that suddenly they are unable to leave...
LAMP UNTO MY FEET (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). Te Deum for J. Alfred Prufrock is British Poet Paul Roche's cheerful reply to T. S. Eliot's despair over the barrenness of modern life in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. British Actress Pat Gilbert-Read and the author read the poem...
...imported a score of beauty queens from Miami and the Dominican Republic and arranged a féte culturelle of poetry readings highlighted by the works of Francois Duvalier. Sample: "The black of my ebony skin merges with the shadows of the night." He prompted a two-hour recital of tributes by Haiti's leading politicians, soldiers, scholars, businessmen and civil servants. He arranged a delegation of 2,000 uniformed schoolchildren, a parade of uniformed soldiers and, as the ultimate tribute to his new father-in-law, a massive replay of Haiti's carnival celebrations, which usually...
...People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 to early 1966. The first of these was the purge in 1955 of Kao Kang, the former political boss of Manchuria who was also the regime's top economic planner. The second occurred in 1959 when the Defense Minister P'eng Te-huai was deposed. While it is true that a few followers of Kao and P'eng were ousted, these purges only temporarily jarred the solidarity of the Maoist leadership and clearly did not convince the nation in the manner of the Stalin purges of the thirties...