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...stood in the middle of the street, where they stopped vehicles, opened car doors and attempted to pet and paw female passengers in the automobiles. The women who accompanied the group lay in the middle of the street, where they went through suggestive motions. At about this time, some half-dozen motorcyclists invaded a bar and brutally beat an old man and attempted to abduct the barmaid. Shortly thereafter some dozen motorcyclists went to the local hospital, where they pushed in every door of the hospital looking for the victim of the beating...
Back in a gentler age, long, long ago, a basketball team didn't need a half-dozen to produce a successful season. Cut now, with Lew Alcindars sprouting from basketball courts all over the country like strange, giant jungle plants, a team without a big man is a team without a chance. This season, the freshman basketball team was without...
Only Yale, Brown, and Princeton, the three weakest of Harvard's half-dozen Ivy opponents, remain on the schedule after Springfield. Should Harvard beat the Maroons, it may very well end the season with four straight wins...
...boys are better trained than most Southern high school students of either race," says Harold Owens of Andover, one of the half-dozen leading prep schools that have accepted St. Aug students for intensive summer courses. Adds Charles McCarthy, director of a cooperative effort by the Ivy League schools to spot bright, underprivileged students: "St. Augustine produces high-quality candidates who don't disappoint the colleges once they're admitted." Peter Briggs, a freshman admissions officer at Harvard, finds St. Aug boys "interesting, constructive guys...
...performances in both events were excellent. Against Army, he threw the shot 50 ft., 4 1/2 in.--only a half-dozen or so varsity shotputters in the Ivy ranks can top that. His 6.4 in the 60-yard dash tied the old varsity meet record in that event...