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...Elis had been in seventh place in the league without a victory over an Ivy opponent. while Penn had lost only to Harvard and was ranked tenth nationally. Yale coach Hubert Vogelsinger used a man-to-man defense and a breakaway offense in an effort to halt the Quakers and his team played its best game of the season to down Penn...
Harvard's outside running talent made use of the unusually wide field, and good forward coverage seemed to shackle Cornell rushes before they could develop into a threat. DiSesa added another try in the second half on an 83-yard breakaway, and the Crimson began to pour...
Though other crises in other trouble spots have diverted attention from the war between Nigeria and its breakaway eastern region, that plight remains desperate. In England a conference of the World Council of Churches voted to collect $5 million from member churches to aid the people of warring Biafra and Nigeria. The churchmen also called on Nigerian leaders to end an air blockade that has kept many of Biafra's 7,000,000 people on diets that are hovering barely above the starvation level...
...Breakaway Biafra. The essay topics are rarely hard-news musts, and never flunk the Rooney colon test. Andy says he can spot an overly sober TV treatise merely by the colon in its title; for ex ample, "Somaliland: Case History of a People," His specialty is the light TV essay that extracts the significant from the commonplace. Does it bother him that Reasoner gets all the glory and earns about $200,000 compared with his $60,000? "Harry has never actually sent me for coffee," Andy jokes, "but he often says, 'If you're going to the cafeteria...
...very often, and that passes for good on television." The straight news shows, he says, are the worst, although he concedes that "distinguished writing there might be obtrusive." Be cause of lack of tiniw, he feels, news writ ers get away with a shorthand glossary of minor cliches like "breakaway Biafra" or "oil-rich Kuwait...