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...league competition, Brown held on to first place and strengthened its claim to its second straight championship with an easy 5-1 romp over seventh place Princeton. Brown co-captain Ben Brewster scored one goal and added two assists to up his Ivy scoring total to eight points to cop first place in the individual scoring honors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Setback by Penn Knocks Booters To Fourth Place | 11/7/1968 | See Source »

...gala bash at Fenway Park, the McCarthy rally at the Garden last Friday was pretty tame stuff. Naturally there were plenty of good reasons for all the elbow room and the lack of ecstasy over the predictable sloganeering. Gene has been swamped at Chicago, Nixon, the sabre-rattling cop, was heading into the homestretch with a big lead, the Vietnam war seemed ready to take an astonishingly civilized turn, and the Garden in the fall isn't Fenway in midsummer...

Author: By John Andrews, | Title: New Politics Requiem | 10/29/1968 | See Source »

FORTUNATELY, the crowd wasn't in Gilligan's unenviable leadership position. Some of them sat there bored, complaining that the talk was "stale," or "phony." They would cop out when the V.C. did. Others, especially a group of McCarthy's ex-aides, stood near the podium, cheered wildly, made V-signals, and wore "Still With McCarthy" buttons. They were still in Oregon...

Author: By John Andrews, | Title: New Politics Requiem | 10/29/1968 | See Source »

...Cop-Out. According to Hollywood Talent Agent Bill Cunningham, the new Negro stereotype created by TV commercials derives at least in part from the notion that white buyers "won't go for actors who have very Negroid features. What we all see are the very attractive Negroes who, if you bleached their skins white, you'd think were Caucasian." Adds one agency talent director: "If they sound like Negroes, they haven't got a chance. They have to look like Negroes and sound like white people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Commercials: Crossing the Color Line | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

Keine, who had finished second to Ryun in many races, ran away from his Kansas opponent to cop the gold medal in record Olympic time of 3:34.9. Ryun finished second with a time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kenyan Defeats Ryan In Olympic 1500 Race | 10/21/1968 | See Source »

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