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Harvard's basketball team built up a ten-point lead in the first six minutes of play and stayed in front all the way to defeat New Hampshire, 91 to 82, last night...
Accent on Youth. Under a ten-point program to be implemented by federal agencies, Clark's team will see that Watts gets: 1) make-work projects to reduce unemployment; 2) stepped-up youth training programs; 3) centers to care for dependent children and to teach skills to needy mothers; 4) a small business development center; 5) increased health services, with emphasis on youth; 6) a back-to-school campaign; 7) more surplus foods; 8) surplus Government property, such as clothing; 9) more neighborhood facilities, such as playgrounds; 10) faster construction of low-income housing...
With the score 55-49, Austin and Wolters scored on two quick fast breaks, giving B.C. a safe ten-point advantage. The Crimson did close the margin to four points on one occasion, but the team's shooting never got hot enough to overhaul the Eagles. In the meantime, two Crimson starters, Barry Williams and Leo Scully had fouled out, and B.C.'s height advantage was giving the Eagles a big rebounding advantage and plenty of second chances on missed shots...
...hotter than a two-dollar pistol, as they made every shot they took in the first four minutes of play and raced into a 15-5 lead. But, as one member of the team admitted, Harvard didn't seem to believe that beating Cornell was possible. With a ten-point lead they still didn't believe it. The Big Red scored 11 straight and gradually increased their margin to 40-33 at the half, driving repeatedly through Harvard's porous defense for easy baskets...
...have, for example, accepted the annual springtime Jugendweihe, a pagan parody of confirmation at which East German youths are enrolled as loyal children of the state. Now these Luther an and Calvinist churches, to which nearly all East Germans belong, are staking out a claim to freedom with a ten-point declaration of independence approved by their bishops at a closed-door synod meeting in Weissensee, a district of East Berlin. This policy statement is being compared to the scathing Barmen declaration of 1934, which was signed by 278 clerical leaders in protest against Nazi attempts to take over...