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Eastern television watchers may got a chance to see MacBean against Lartmouth. ABC has been planning to televise the Harvard-Yale game, but it will probably drop that game for the Prince-ton-Dartmouth contest. A Tiger win over Yale Saturday will make that switch a certainty...
...change in draft laws hit us like a ton of bricks. Men panicked," he said. "In that year over 17 per cent made plans to enter into military service...
...Treasury agents, aircraft and Coast Guard boats that have been swarming on, over and around the 2,500-mile border since September 21 made only 500 arrests and seized just two tons of marijuana by the end of last week. Yet, if the crackdown did temporarily reduce the annual 1,200-ton flow of "grass" from south of the border -presumably because the serious smugglers just sat it out-it also reduced U.S.-Mexican relations to one of the lowest points in years...
...center's activities have been unqualified triumphs. Citron still blushes over Report No. 452: based on a U.P.I. dispatch, it said that a weird, 35-ton sea monster, possibly a survivor from the age of dinosaurs, had washed ashore at Tecolutla, Mexico. A few days later the center conceded that the "living fossil" was an ordinary whale...
...with the Soviet Union and China. For that matter, he will probably be allowed to tamper with very little. To avert a bruising struggle for the succession, the contenders have quite deliberately removed the presidency from the arena. Until North Viet Nam's power vacuum is filled, "Uncle Ton," as Thang is sometimes called, is expected to do little more than urge unity and praise the late Uncle...