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Yale has to be a heavy favorite in the Bowl. Brian Dowling and a stout defense have staked the Elis to the nation's longest winning streak--13 games--and Dartmouth was unimpressive here last week...
Dartmouth took the kick-off in the second half, but the Crimson defense again held and the Green had to punt. Harvard tallied next with 11:54 gone in the third period, after Lalich and Gatto had combined for the longest ground gain...
...discontent started soon after Britain's four-year-old monetary crisis, which has forced Wilson to undertake salvage measures that the unions claim have put an intolerable pinch on workingmen. Britain is mired in its longest period of high unemployment since World War II. Money is tight, and prices have crept upward since last November's devaluation. Britain depends heavily on imports, notably food, and the lowering of the pound's value relative to foreign currencies made imports more expensive. At the same time, to hold down the price of British goods abroad, the government, over bitter...
...Yale 49-Colgate 14. It was Brian Dowling again. The Eli quarterback passed for two touchdowns and ran for another against hapless Colgate. The romp, which made Yale's game winning streak the longest in the nation, was achieved without the services of star halfback Calvin Hill. Hill will be back in action this, week, and with him and Dowling and the rest it looks as if the Blue winning streak could go on all season...
Midway through this longest night, O'Rourke decides to conquer nothingness by destroying himself. Deserting his post, he reels off in a grog-soaked bender and chops down a flagpole with an ax. Based on a drama by British Playwright John McGrath, The Bofors-Gun whirls to an ironic, literal climax that leaves the viewer more with the sense of having read a script than experienced a film. But there is nothing flat or literary about Williamson's biting representation of a human being tormented by both God and man, who in the end chooses neither...