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Surprisingly, the Minutemen led the defending national champions in the third quarter last night, 9-8, before a surge gave Cornell a 17-13 triumph and a spot in the semi-finals...
Navy has never won a title, but the Midshipmen have played in all seven tournaments. On only one occasion, when Virginia sprung a 13-12 upset on the Hopkins super sophomores in 1972, has the tournament title not gone to one of the four teams in this year's semi-finals...
...Those semi-final games will take place Saturday. While Cornell will be meeting (and probably beating) Navy at Ithaca, Maryland and Hopkins will renew one of sports' hottest rivalries at Homewood Field in Baltimore...
...since Joshua's trumpets at Jericho had there been a military operation in which there was so little rational expectation of success"); on Lenin's Imperialism ("Not even a committed discuvpe could think it an impressive document, although many have risen to the challange"); and the old Democratic Party ("semi-literates from the rural South and semi-criminals from the urban North...
Last week, however, when 246 U.S. bishops gathered in Chicago's Palmer House to discuss the matter at their semi-annual meeting, the 5,000-word final draft of the statement expressed appreciation for the Detroit meeting and a willingness to at least think about its long list of recommendations. Moreover, a group of 20 Call to Action enthusiasts, led by Newark's Archbishop Peter Gerety, put through an amendment that sets up a special committee to monitor the handling of the Detroit proposals over the next five years...