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Suddenly, Paris seemed to have slipped two years back in time. Clouds of acrid tear gas hung over the chestnut trees of Left Bank boulevards, just as they had during the shattering événements of May 1968 that tore France apart and led directly to the fall of Charles de Gaulle. Thousands of angry Maoist students and tough riot policemen clashed in short but bloody street battles. Long-haired gauchiste (leftist) students in blue jeans and suede jackets stopped motorists in the Latin Quarter and flipped their cars over to form makeshift barricades. Rocks, bricks and chunks...
...nine daily racing sheets predicted, a chestnut colt named Tanino Moutiers from Hokkaido broke away from the field of 22 three-year-olds to win the l½-mile race. The purse of $63,000 raised his total earnings to $284,000, a record for three-year-olds inJapan. At the finish, poorer but poetic grandstanders followed tradition by throwing their losing tickets in the air in unison to simulate the falling of cherry blossoms...
Warren Goldfarb as the Mikado seemed suited to reign over this ridiculous country, and made himself an integral part of the second act. The pacing never flagged, and the finale was strong and forceful. All told, it was a sterling performance of an old chestnut, one of the best this side of the Savoy...
...newly-elected representatives are: Neil H. Jacobs of Greenough Hall and Newton, to the Committee on Students and the Community; Andrew S. Narva of Holworthy Hall and Chestnut Hill, to the Committee on Undergraduate Education; and Robert Coyne of Hollis Hall and Colonia, N.J., to the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life...
...Bruce Durno, who was forced to play a magnificent game throughout the second period, when Harvard was hanging on desperately, did the rest. It was a beautiful thing to watch, and the fact that Harvard did it at Chestnut Hill made it all the better...