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...finals of the singles competition, two of Barnaby's best battled it out for the national title. Victor Niederhoffer '64, who had never picked up a squash racket before he came to Harvard and Barnaby, outsmarted Peter Briggs '73 in a mere three games...
...Soviet bombing of Japan. In the brief glow of Allied wartime collaboration, Zoya and Jack fell in love. Their last meeting was on V-E day 1945, when they hoped a child was conceived. If that proved to be so, the couple vowed to name the baby Victor or Victoria in honor of the Allied triumph. "It was a beautiful story," recalled Zoya in Moscow, "a romantic, tragic love story." But as that story unfolded last week, it echoed Alexander Solzhenitsyn's account of Stalinist terror, The Gulag Archipelago, in which Zoya is mentioned...
...just like any other Harvard- Princeton squash match--the victor would be the new Ivy League champion and destined to become the next national champion. Princeton emerged victorious from this season's showdown, besting Harvard, 7-2, at Princeton on Saturday...
Freud's break with Jung is perhaps the greatest dispute in psychoanalysis but it certainly wasn't the most insane. Freud's power over his followers was frightening, even fatal, and his victims were not all ideas. His personal and scientific rejection of Victor Tausk helped drive him to a horribly deliberate suicide by both gun and rope and shortly after Freud wrote Herbert Silberer that "I no longer desire personal contact with you," because of a basically professional argument. Silberer hanged himself, dramatically leaving a flashlight in his face and a letter, to Freud, on his desk. The personalities...
Spying Halt. Not even the name of the DOD's present chief is known publicly, though Watergate Burglar E. Howard Hunt claims to have been its first chief of covert action. In his book The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, Victor Marchetti, a disaffected employee who left the agency in 1969, reports that the DOD at that time had a staff of a few hundred people and an annual budget of up to $10 million. It operated field offices in at least ten U.S. cities...