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...injury-plagued Crimson dropped a tense decision, 57-51, to the Cadets in December and will be eager for revenge. The presence of seven other Ivy teams and Navy will complicate some events, but with the possible exception of Yale, none of them should threaten the Harvard-Army monopoly of the team championship...

Author: By Richard T. Howe, | Title: Harvard, Army Thinclads To Battle for Heps Crown | 2/22/1969 | See Source »

...press charges against the rebels, who have been booked for half a dozen kinds of conspiracy and are being held without bail. "Painful as the task may be," Clarke explained, "the university has the duty to see that academic freedom is preserved and that no one is permitted to threaten or destroy its functions." If tried and convicted, the rioters-28 of whom are not even students at Sir George Williams-could receive prison sentences stretching from five years to life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Spring of Discontent | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

Profit on the Seas. Even then, the Skouras armada will not exactly threaten that of the more golden Greeks, Aristotle Onassis (more than 100 ships) or Stavros Niarchos (65). Still, it will do what few of its American rivals have done in recent years: turn a sizable profit. Last year Skouras' Prudential Lines earned an estimated $1.5 million on revenues of $14 million; Grace earned a little more than $3,000,-000 on revenues of $100 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shipping: Now, the Son of Spyros | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

Today's meet against Brown should be little more than a warm-up for the Heps. The Bruins, who sport a 3-2 record, will threaten in only three events--the dash, pole vault, and broad jump. Two Brown pole vaulters have cleared 14', but Harvard's Pete Lazarus, who vaulted 14' 6" against Army, should take first. One Bruin to watch is Grey Owellette, undefeated in the broad jump...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Powerful Cindermen Host Bruins Today at 'Bubble' | 2/15/1969 | See Source »

...Strangelove, East" (Physicist Edward Teller held the Western title). But his main argument, which eventually became U.S. policy, was that the old massive-retaliation approach of the middle-'50s was irrational because it offered no real alternative between surrender and wholesale annihilation: "It does not make sense to threaten suicide in order to prevent eventual death." John Foster Dulles' policies in general seemed "onedimensional" to Kissinger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KISSINGER: THE USES AND LIMITS OF POWER | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

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