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...rest--they were in no condition to keep up with B.C.'s lanky six six center, Tony Daukas, who led his team with 20 points. For the first seven and a half minutes of the last quarter the Crimson was unable to score a single field goal. Shots went astray and passes went all over the court. The team just didn't have it, Boston College did. HARVARD (63) FG F Pts. Stevenson, rf 1 1 3 Blodnick 4 1 9 Murphy, lf 4 4 12 Krinsky 0 2 2 Lionette, c 3 1 7 Redmond 1 0 2 Dennis...
...weeks later on April 2 McCarthy and Dorgan had another chance to sound off on Communism--this time specifically the college-bred variety--before the Committee on Education. Beliefs were as important as lectures, said Dorgan. "Don't be led astray," he warned, "by that hackneyed phrase, 'academic freedom'." "Freedom," he said, "is freedom to do what you ought to do." He left any further definition of what a free citizen ought to do for the audience to grasp by implication...
Those who want the inside story on Red China may be led astray by the ads for "Peking Express." Most of the "action" in this picture takes place inside a 1910 railroad car that might as well be standing in the Chicago stockyards. Joseph Cotten, cast as a United Nations doctor, wanders aimlessly up and down the aisle accompanied by equally aimless Corinne Calvert. Miss Calvert bites her tongue occasionally to express emotion and indicate that she's still alive...
Lost Bodies. As the bus unloaded at Oxford ("I must ask you not to go astray. We've absolutely no machinery for lost bodies"), the tourists split up into groups, each with its own guide resplendent in colored waistcoat and checked cap. The tourists had lunch at the Golden Cross Inn, saw such sights as the place in the Christ Church library where Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland, ended the day with tea and Mozart in an undergraduate room...
...states, is shaped like an inverted funnel, and is absolutely cold. Heat and light occur only when the sun's rays strike the atmosphere. Maciver admits that he was hesitant about discarding long established scientific theories. He believes he knows, however, why so many scientists before him went astray...