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...Crimson might be witness to some incredible distance running by Villanova's John Hartnett. The only man in the competition to run a sub-four-minute mile, the Wildcat star could be Villanova's margin for victory...
...enough to make ends meet under the former price system. They gathered in the main transportation arteries of the country, erected barricades, and threw stones at intervening government troops. Soon their cause was joined by the tin miners, the nation's largest industrial group, who called a two-day wildcat strike to protest the announced rise in prices. Within a week--after almost 100 had been killed, according to the Commission for Justice and Peace, a Catholic organization--the army had quelled all signs of protest, and the peasants and miners reluctantly returned to their farms and factories...
There is a legitimate question, though, whether that spirit can be extended. In Germany itself, labor peace was shattered late last summer by a series of wildcat strikes. Having a voice in company planning did not soothe workers who were unhappy about rising prices and the modest wage hikes negotiated by their unions early last year (worker-directors stay out of pay bargaining, which is conducted by regional unions and federations of employers). And would the cooperative attitude of Germany's soberly capitalist labor leaders be matched by representatives of strike-happy British unions, or Communist-led French...
...Crimson almost tied the game in the final two minutes when Harvard held a man advantage. Wildcat goalie Cap Raeder proved invincible, however, as he protected his team's one-goal lead...
Harvard entered the third period with a one-goal lead, but at 14:26, Wildcat forward Olmstead scored on a close shot from the crease area. Two minutes later, Hislop beat Murray to make the final score...