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What's wrong with Harvard? Something is the matter. Numerous letters from alarmed alumni pour into the President's office every day, asking if Socialism and anarchy are on the rampage among undergraduates. When faculty members speak in the Midwest, someone always rises to ask if Harvard is really the hot-bed of hair-brained Radicalism that newspapers allege. Old grads shake their heads mournfully and agree the place is going to the dogs. Harvard is more restless, more turbulent, more individual in its thoughts than ever before...
...weeks the speculation and suspense mounted and the questions multiplied. The answers went into the ballot box on Election Day. In a few hours they began to pour out. Here, measured in Eastern Standard Time, is how the ballot boxes told one of the greatest stories of this generation...
Last spring ten nations (Belgium, The Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, France, West Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Yugoslavia) organized CERN (Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) and agreed to chip in for a nuclear research center. Continental Europe has plenty of big scientific brains, but no big apparatus...
Ohio State, already bowled over by Purdue, faced the prospect of taking its licking of the year from powerful Wisconsin, ranked No. 1 in the Associated Press poll of U.S. sportwriters. Wisconsin had every reason to pour it on; the Badgers had not beaten Ohio State at Columbus since 1918. But once again the beef cowed the butcher. Holding Wisconsin to a thin 7-to-6 lead at the half, Ohio State rallied brilliantly, put on long, sustained drives for two more touchdowns, added a field goal, blasted the Badgers out of the Big Ten lead...
Nixon went on talking about "the Red threat to America." A young man in a shabby blue suit shouted "Pour it on, Dick." The Senator said there was danger that "our precious liberties might be snatched away from us by a clever underground conspiracy." The crowd grew restless and began watching a fight between two little kids. "Stop that noise, young ones," said an elderly woman, "and let the man say his words." Then a tomato landed to the right of the speakers' platform, and the police turned about and went hustling through the crowd...