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Mitchell L. Wolfe '74, Lowell House CHUL representative, said yesterday that he disagreed with any move to thwart the election procedure. He added that any desire to define the power of the ACSR should be discussed after the members of the electing panel for the ACSR have been chosen...
...cause during the course of the 110-minute struggle, but none played as important a part in Harvard's victory as Kidder. Time and again the junior netminder came up with the crucial save, many them retrieving the ball in traffic. Presented with the unenviable task of trying to thwart two penalty kicks in the second half. Kidder stopped the first and barely missed brushing aside the second...
...twentieth century. Lyndon Johnson proved her wrong In an era searching for human grandeur, Johnson flaunted the strengths and flaws of a tragic hero, Puffed with pride and ambition, he dared to challenge the rule of the gods. Or more precisely in our de- deified world he dared to thwart the course of history...
Farther downstream, the war's anniversary was also the beginning of this year's "summer visit plan." During the next few months, at least 150,000 Arabs will cross over the Allenby Bridge for visits of up to 90 days to the occupied West Bank. To thwart the fedayeen, Israeli guards open even tinned food and examine toothbrushes for explosives. Two-man teams expertly strip trucks down to engine and frame in their search for contraband. Occasionally a suspected guerrilla is turned back...
...ravenous Papadopoulos reach for power. Another reason, insiders whispered, was that Papadopoulos-despite his oath last week-intends to dethrone Constantine completely and cut off the generous allowance that permits the handsome King to live comfortably in Rome. Sooner or later, it is believed, Papadopoulos will try to thwart international criticism of his dictatorship by creating a new republic with himself as President and by writing a new constitution that would restore "disciplined democracy"-without a King or freewheeling anti-Papadopoulos parties...