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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inane uproar over the troops in Cuba illuminates the confused state of our foreign policy, which lacks the stability and consistency that command worldwide respect. President Carter has shown prudence in his caution over angering the Soviets by refusing to agree to the linkage of the two issues. But his poor national rating has allowed Congress a free hand in determining America's foreign policy...
...Algonquin Round Table contest for the most sensational conceivable headline, the redoubtable Dorothy Thompson is said to have won with her entry of two words: "Pope Elopes." That is almost as inconceivable as the headline reading: "Pontiff to Celebrate Mass for Half-Million on Boston Common...
...rural New England, mothers used to threaten their recalcitrant children with midnight visits from the Pope if they didn't behave. Now these threats are coming true and descendants of these Calvinist matrons will vie with each other for places along Boston's own Via Papale. Two remarkable Bostonians should have lived to see this day. Antagonists in life, on this day they would have been as one: William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, Boston's ultramontane Cardinal Archbishop, and The Honorable James Michael Curley, Boston's irrepressible mayor and one-term governor of Massachusetts...
...Wesleyan defenders intercepted most Crimson breaks and turned the ball back the other way. When the Crimson did penetrate deep on either wing, they repeatedly sent crossing passes booming too hard past the goalmouth. When they drove down the middle, Harvard couldn't find the one-two's that turn attacks into goal...
Substituting for the injured Pete Walsh, who hyper-extended his hand in practice and may be healed for Saturday's UConn game, goalie Billy Blood rose to the task on the one or two occasions he was tested. With about 15 minutes left he leapt high to punch a free kick away from the dangerous head of 6'5" Steve Mooney...