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Compared with the marches of yesteryear, the antiwar demonstrations that sizzled and, in most cases, fizzled from New York to San Francisco last week were downright duds. Only 400 marchers turned up under drizzly skies in Washington's Franklin Park, where their modest demeanor, punctuated with a scattering of McCarthy buttons, struck an odd contrast to the motley of the Pentagon marchers last October. Boston's 500 demonstrators scarcely disrupted the weekend traffic...
...teenaroons, it's nostalgia time, as we move into the groove with the supersound of yesteryear! Let me sock it to ya - the Beatles, a pow-pow-pounding boogie beat, four blattzing saxes and a nitty-gritty ditty called Lady Madonna! Yeah...
Still "Reelin' and Rockin'" (Chuck Berry) from the "Tragedy" (Thomas Wayne) of WRKO's Top 300 "Weekend" (Kingsmen), we nevertheless will try to "return to those thrilling days of yesteryear" (William Tell Overture), and come up with another Crimson quiz on "Those Oldies But Goodies" (Little Caesar & Romans). "I Got a Feeling." (Ricky Nelson) that memories "Maybe" (Chantels) growing short, and present freshmen, anyway, are "So Young" (Students), so we're added a lot of trash to the official "Big Beat" (Fats Domino) "Field of Concentration" (Dean Watson). Answers can be submitted to the Crimson building by "Tomorrow" (Shirelles...
...bewildering-as one after another of the favorites went down to defeat, making a mess of the national rankings. To pro scouts, who pay no attention to either the crowd or the polls, it was a little disappointing in some respects. Where were the great quarterbacks of yesteryear? The best runners in college ball were juniors and therefore ineligible for the pro draft. Good defensive backs were hard to find. But last week, as they studied their notes and prepared for the draft, scouts from the 25 pro teams agreed that in many ways 1967 was a very good year...
...explains how Neil L. Rudenstine, assistant professor of English, dramatically changed the mood of the protestors by asking if the crowd wished "to adopt the repressive techniques of yesteryear...