Word: setbacks
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Harvard's varsity golfers, hoping to go to the NCAA championships, suffered a 5-2 setback on Saturday at the hands of Eastern titlists Princeton, but a win by captain Bruce LoPucki enabled him to tie three others for most victories in a season by a Harvard golfer...
...franc. De Gaulle had courted the Soviet Union during a triumphal tour in 1966 and had implicitly excluded the U.S. from his often-stated vision of a Europe "united from the Atlantic to the Urals." But his policy of détente with the U.S.S.R. suffered a violent setback when Soviet tanks invaded Czechoslovakia, and French critics of NATO suddenly fell silent. Rapprochement was further advanced by Richard Nixon's European trip in February, which he used to affirm both his personal admiration for the general and the continuing U.S. friendship for France...
...Cadets had run up 21 straight indoor and outdoor victories before being upset by Yale last week, 81-73, and have defeated the Crimson in every meet since the spring of 1966. Last year's 89-65 setback to Army was Harvard's only outdoor dual meet loss...
Keen Dryden, star goalie for Cornell University, made his first appearance in the World Amateur Hockey Tournament in Stockholm, Sweden, Tuesday, leading Canada to a 1-0 shutout victory over the winless United states squad. The setback was the Americans' seventh...
Gymnastics at Harvard suffered a serious setback yesterday when the Faculty Committee on Athletics decided to cooperate with the gymnasts but take no initiative action in solving their problems...