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Coach Coonie Weiland cleared the benches in the varsity tilt, which featured a combined total of thirty-two minutes of penalties called against both teams. Late in the third period, when the game was all but over, fighting broke out in front of the Harvard cage, and twelve minutes of penalties were handed out after the gloves and sticks had been cleared away...
...chairmanship went to Texas Democrat George Mahon, a loyal Lyndon man-but to Democratic leaders there was still a disturbing aura of conservatism about many of the 50 committee members. As for the 25-man Ways and Means Committee, headed by Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, it had a longtime tilt to the right too-enough so that the committee managed to keep the Administration's medicare bill from ever getting to the House floor last year...
...Paulo rocked to thunderous chants of "La-cer-da! La-cer-da!" Brazil's revolution was only six months old, and new presidential elections are not scheduled until Nov. 3, 1966. But Carlos Lacerda, 50, the mercurial Governor of Guanabara (Rio) State, is off and running full tilt for the presidency. Accepting the unanimous nomination of his National Democratic Union, Lacerda immediately boarded a campaign "Train of Hope" for a whistle-stop tour of 18 towns, standing on the back platform and fervently promising "a land of tranquillity, a government which functions without fear of demagoguery, without fear...
...help admiring Rockne's courage; the game had barely started before he was limping noticeably. Late in the first period, with the ball on the Army 30 Dorais dropped back to pass. Nobody noticed Rockne, hobbling painfully down the sideline. Suddenly, the limp disappeared; he was running full tilt toward the Army goal, reaching up for the pass. Touchdown! Before the long afternoon was over, Notre Dame's passing attack had clicked for 243 yds. and two TDs, and the unknown Indiana school had upset mighty Army...
...better than he that taketh a city.' " Hunger. As the campaign progressed, Johnson took to carrying around a sheaf of reports from pollsters; he pulled them out and leafed through them at the slightest provocation. His walks on the White House grounds, with reporters chasing in full tilt, took on the aspect of a circus performance. His wife scoured the countryside for votes, while Luci Baines did her part by frug-dancing up a storm wherever she went. More and more, Johnson journeyed back and forth across the U.S., drinking in huge draughts of adoration from the crowds, shaking...