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...Well, people who know are wondering if Joe Restic's wide-open offense is going to open up the action on the gridiron this year. Last season, after a big training-camp build-up, it really bogged down when the money was on the line. There were a lot of complaints that the only thing that his new system opened up were the mouths of yawning fans who were bored to death up in the stadium Saturday after Saturday...
...part series on the Harvard basketball team. Interviews were conducted with present and former players on the team as well as with Crimson coach Bob Harrison. The articles are an attempt to analyze why the team had such a disappointing record following such a big pre-season build...
...group also laid plans for a mass demonstration in Boston on Friday and for a rally at Hanscom Air Force Base in Lexington on Saturday. The Saturday rally is intended to publicize the current military build-up across the country...
...often becomes for the poor peasant a gateway to a new and better way of life. For some poor migrants, the wartime urban boom has made possible incomes five times those which they had in the countryside. In one Saigon slum, Xom Chua, in early 1965 before the American build-up, the people lived at a depressed level, with 33 per cent of the adult males unemployed. Eighteen months later, as a result of the military escalation, the total population of the slum had increased by 30 per cent, but the unemployment rate had dropped to 5 per cent...
...veracity, that its heavy allegory of six middle-class youngsters who try to save 70 buffalo from an annual sport-slaughter becomes, in effect, only a shaggy-bull story. Columbia execs must be worried: the film has, in general, been drubbed, and they've given it a big Boston build-up. They're also clever: the film cost a cheap $840,000 to make, and if they plug it hard enough, in today's crazy market...who knows...