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Kremlin Image. For Gomulka, the squabbling among his visitors provided a welcome change in agenda from the showdown involving his leadership that seemed inevitable three months ago. His challenger was Mieczyslaw Moczar, chief of Poland's secret police and head of its influential partisans' organization, who had exploited several areas of Polish dissatisfaction to gain impressive leverage for himself. Chief among these issues was the Kremlin's overbearing influence, which has kept the economy geared to heavy industry and Russian-bound exports at a time when Poles, like other Soviet-bloc countries, were demanding consumer goods. Moczar...
Quincy completely outclassed all opponents in the touch football league. In a showdown between the top two teams, Quincy bombed Leverett 34-14 with Ken Sandler and Jim Fabiani sparking the offense. In the season finale, Tommy Harris led Quincy to a crushing 53-0 victory over Winthrop as the threw five touchdown passes...
...soccer action, Leverett downed Quincy 1-0 to set up a showdown with first-place Eliot after Eliot overcame a stubborn Dunster team 4-1. Leverett tallied first in the crucial game, but then Eliot scored three times to win 3-1. House Standings Tackle W L T PTS Leverett 6 1 1 13 Kirkland 6 2 0 12 Eliot 5 2 1 11 Dunster 4 2 2 10 Lowell 4 2 2 10 Adams 4 2 2 10 Winthrop 2 6 0 4 Quincy 1 7 0 2 Dudley...
Yale and Harvard both have 6-0 records, including 3-0 marks on the Ivy circuit, and there are two games left before their showdown. Penn dropped out of a share of the League lead with its loss to Harvard...
...week's end, three events had been held, and Americans had won all three-two of them, the men's 400-meter freestyle relay and the women's 400-meter medley relay, in world-record times. The U.S. basketball team was still unbeaten, heading for a showdown with the Soviet Union. But there are 19 sports in the 1968 Olympics-more than enough to give athletes from the rest of the world an opportunity to make their marks. And they did. Four of the best...