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...some time at a tavern, she stopped at Reynolds' room, then returned to her own at 3 a.m. There Whiting came out from behind a clothes rack and "got ahold of me and began throwing me about the room," hitting her on the face and head. Her screams woke Janie Evans, the nanny for her five-year-old son Thomas, in the next room, and Evans called Reynolds...
Harvard began with a win in the medley relay and before Cornell woke up the Crimson had built a huge 36-7 margin going into the 1-meter dive. Hess Yntema and Rich Baughman took 1-2 in a leisurely 1000, captain Fred Mitchell came back from a free leg on the medley to win the 200-yd. free, a la Charlie Campbell, and Tim Neville set a new Harvard pool record in the 50-yd. free with a 21.5 clocking to highlight the Crimson's early surge...
...statements about draft resisters: "...[they] must pay their price, and that price is not a junket in the Peace Corps, or something like that, as some have suggested. The price is a criminal penalty for disobeying the laws of the United States." My ex-roommate, the same one who woke me up to tell me about the end of the world, is a draft resister. And we wonder about Richard Nixon. What is the criminal penalty for obliterating an entire country, for shredding the spirit of the American people, or for smothering respect for the office of the Presidency...
...watch; the clock of nature is not working right." One youth became so deranged after four days of sleeplessness that he had to be admitted to Asgard Mental Hospital. There he could barely speak, shivered with apprehension, recognized no one and believed he had been poisoned-yet woke up recovered after a long, drug-induced sleep...
GERRY KELLEY'S COMPANY was getting up at 4.25 that Saturday morning. It was dark, raining and cold where they woke up, but they moved quickly to wash, dress, eat, and enter the waiting buses. They were going to Syracuse to watch Army's week football team play the equally feeble Orangemen. "No one says you have to go to football games." Gerry explained. "It's sort of optionally mandatory. If you don't go you might find yourself getting lower grades from some professors...