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Communist Conservatives. Back in Havana, Fidel Castro's house organ reacted to the week's events with predictable howls of "Yankee military intervention." charged that the U.S. naval patrol was the first step in a U.S. attack on Cuba and "a grave threat to world peace." Yet there were hints that Castro might have to moderate his tone before long. Soviet Russia is increasingly-and obviously-worried about its newest satellite. In Havana, Soviet Ambassador Sergei M. Kudryavstev passed the word that Moscow is not entirely pleased with Castro's systematic alienation of Latin America...
...from friends), Domingín was all smiles upon being presented with a third child, second daughter, Paola, by his wife, sometime Italian Actress Lucia Bose. But his face dropped when local newsstands suddenly blossomed with a Spanish edition of LIFE that contained the first installment of The Dangerous Summer, the account by grizzled Aficionado Ernest Hemingway of Dominguín's perilous rivalry with his brother-in-law, Matador Antonio Ordóñez, on the Spanish bullfighting circuit during the summer of 1959. Forewarned that Hemingway was setting him up for a critical clobbering by comparison with...
...Yale's very first play from scrimmage, Quarterback Tom Singleton faked to Fullback Bob Blanchard plunging up the middle. Then, as Harvard converged to stop Blanchard, Singleton coolly handed off to Halfback Kenny Wolfe. The deception worked perfectly. With Left Tackle Mike Pyle blasting open the hole, Wolfe was away for a 41-yd. touchdown run that touched off an afternoon of glory for his team. Getting stronger as the game went on, brawny Yale overwhelmed Archrival Harvard...
Yale's victory produced its first undefeated, untied season since 1923, won the Ivy League championship, and gained revenge for a band of seniors who had never before beaten Harvard. But Yale's victory in The Game did much more. To a skeptical TV audience along the East Coast, Yale proved it could play a brand of rugged, resourceful football despite the Ivy League's thorough de-emphasis of the sport. Few old Blues, even of deepest hue, would argue that Yale could have won regularly against such emphasized football powers as Iowa, Missouri and Mississippi...
Five boys on the first string that defeated Harvard have academic scholarships. (Some 35% of the Yale undergraduate body has scholarship aid.) Top scholar on the team is End Jim Pappas, who has an average of 91 in premed...