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...following the suggestion of M.D.C. and Harvard University Police. The commission decided that extra lighting along the river would be the best way to combat would-be muggers who have gathered in the past along the Memorial Drive side of the river, under the protective cover of darkness, and waylaid Harvard students...
...battle. But the Beanpot magic entered Fitzsimmon's wand against Northeastern and he has another mission two days from now against B.U. The Dartmouth revellers will have the misfortune today of watching a Crimson team that should be just reaching its peak and is not about ready to be waylaid in the provinces...
...after a stint as editor of the New Republic, Wallace was wooed and waylaid by the hard-eyed opportunists of the Progressive Party. Though never a Communist himself, he accepted Communist help, he said, because "I will not repudiate any support which comes to me on the basis of interest in peace." But from the start of the campaign it was plain that the Progressive leadership was interested solely in exploiting Wallace's popular appeal. They had a willing figurehead. As Wallace stormed across the land, condemning the Marshall Plan, aid to Greece and Turkey, and U.S. resistance...
...dissolute young husband, lay recovering from a severe case of pox that most likely was secondary syphilis. But Darnley was not a victim of the blast. In some manner, which has always bemused and tantalized historians, he and a servant got away to a nearby garden, where they were waylaid and strangled...
...Same Problems." First off, Bar ry Goldwater got waylaid by newsmen on the question of what he thought about Republican Congressman John V. Lindsay, now running for mayor of New York City while industriously trying to disassociate himself from the Republican label. Barry knew what he thought, all right. Said he: "I'd think a man who's registered as a Republican would be proud to run as one in a partisan election." Pressed further, Goldwater added: "I don't know enough about Lindsay to give you the time of day. I know...