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...little crowd gathered-mostly students in odds & ends of G.I. clothing. A young man with a red face, an Army combat jacket and a G.I. wool cap climbed out of an excavation across the street. "What's happening, Mac?" he asked. I told him they were going to unveil a plaque marking the approximate spot where the atom bomb started five years ago this afternoon. "They ain't makin' no bombs there now, are they?" he asked. I told him I didn't think so. He said: "Wadda ya know" and went back down...
...Bill Waymack, representing the Atomic Energy Commission, also said something. The crowd of 150 didn't hear what they said because the public-address system got fouled up. The red-faced man came back out of the excavation again and asked: "They get it all fixed, Mac?" Yes, I told him, they got it all fixed...
Despite his team's edge on paper, James MacDonald went along with his deceased countryman Robert Burns's observation that the best laid schemes o' mice an' men aft gang agley. "Comparative scores in soccer mean little," Mac-ventured yesterday, "adding that in the Yale game they mean nothing...
...stop Brice and therefore the Yale team, MacDonald plans to play David Ogden, the best tackler on the Crimson squad, at right half instead of at his usual center-half spot. "Ogden's speed ought to make it difficult for Brice," Mac said yesterday. Don Louria, the regular left half, will switch over to center-half where Mac has been grooming him. HARVARD YALE Batchelder g Phillips Burrowes rfb Slade Scully lfb Joline Ogden rhb Andrews Louria ohb Stone Mavor (capt.) lhb Caulkins Spivak ro Richardson Potter ri Ford Estin or Aguirre of Brice (capt.) Chun ll Anderson Daswon...
American colleges such as Army, Princeton and Dartmouth play a football-type of game emphasizing bodily contact, speed and long boots. MacDonald decries brutish methods. "You can't win a ball game without controlling the ball," Mac says, "and booting the ball all over the field and banging into peaople doesn't help you get the ball into scoring position...