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...best this season--and there have been high points, like freshman left wing Dave Connors scoring with 45 seconds left in overtime to vanquish B.U., 4-3, December 5 and a team effort overcoming the University of New Hampshire, 4-1, six days later--the Crimson can play with anyone. In molding and directing the energies of his youthful squad, Cleary must perform the hockey equivalent of a delicately controlled fusion reaction. "This is one of the best years I've ever had coaching," says the former Harvard, Beanpot and Olympic star. "I've never had so much...
...tightened. He had been the witness, or victim-or even reluctant prophet-of such spurious cults as lateralism, parallelism, separatism, operational devolution, and now, if he remembered Lacon's most recent meanderings correctly, of integration. Each new fashion had been hailed as a panacea: 'Now we shall vanquish, now the machine will work!' Each had gone out with a whimper, leaving behind it the familiar English muddle, of which, more and more, in retrospect, he saw himself as a lifelong moderator. He had forborne, hoping others would forbear, and they had not. He had toiled in back...
Caroline and Philippe eventually won over the bride's parents. Whether they would vanquish the press was another matter. Caroline's 42-ft. catamaran, a wedding gift from her father, was ostentatiously brought to the harbor last week, and Rainier's motor yacht was given a fresh coat of paint. Perhaps these were diversionary tactics. Friends hinted that the couple might return to the Galápagos. If so, the archipelago that inspired Darwin will no doubt be overrun by one of the most curious creatures of all: genus scriptorum...
Southpaw Vastola finished the first day of the finals near the middle of the 24 foil fencers. He must also vanquish almost all his opponents to make the top six and become an All-American...
Going into the crucial final duel, Brandeis led 8-7 in bouts and 54-51 on touches. Thus, Cooper needed to vanquish the Judges' Didi Mejias by four for Harvard...