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...varsity squad suffered an inevitable letdown after losing to Brown, 6-1, in the game it had been looking forward to all season. Coach Bruce Munro admitted that the team was depressed early his week. "But Thursday they looked like the old Harvard team. They played better than they have in the last three weeks...
...Indians defeated Penn by only five points and Yale by three. However, it seems inconceivable that the unbeaten Green could lose to Columbia, a mediocre team in every respect. After their experience at New Haven last Saturday. Coach Bob Blackman's charges will probably be guarding against a letdown and should score an effortless triumph...
...Crimson suffered a letdown in the final period, falling to control play as it had done in the previous two periods. Williams captain Budge Upton, a quick and energetic center forward who played an outstanding game for the losers, caught the Crimson fullbacks napping in the opening moments of the fourth quarter and scored the lone Williams goal with an assist from inside Bill Blanchard...
Thus the setting of the capstone on the civil rights structure brings disillusionment to whites ("Isn't that enough?") and to Negroes ("Is that all?"). The mood of many Negroes in the late summer of 1965 ranges from letdown to rage. Many secretly or openly think that "violence is valuable" because "now people care about Watts." "I'm as full of hate as a rattlesnake is of poison," hisses a Negro in Montgomery. "There's people walking around mad all over here," an unemployed Memphis janitor says. A rich Harlem lawyer finds it reasonable that "anybody could...
...fatuous by far was launched by Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah. Amid great fanfare, Nkrumah sent Foreign Minister Alex Quaison-Sackey off to Washington with a personal letter for Lyndon Johnson. If U.S. officials were hoping for news of an important development, however, they were in for a letdown. Nkrumah, who expects to visit Hanoi soon, was chiefly interested in making sure that U.S. bombers would not turn his arrival into the wrong kind of reception blast. Patiently, L.B.J. assured the Ghanaians that "not a bomb has fallen" on Hanoi, but that the U.S. would not stop its bombing...