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...colonels, already concerned about public reaction to their capitulation over Cyprus, were unwilling to risk a showdown that would exacerbate their strained relations with Greece's conservatives. Rather than arrest the publishers, the junta offered a compromise: if the newspapers would run the regime's attack on Karamanlis on the main news page, they could run Karamanlis' attack on the junta on an inside page. All eight Athens papers agreed, and Greek readers thereupon had the unusual experience of reading the first criticism of the junta since it seized power on April...
...came to signify a new spirit of defiance at one edge of the campaign for civil rights. Among whites and moderate Negro leaders alike, the concept inspired fears of a procession of hot summers, a raging Negro separatist movement-and perhaps in the end a costly showdown between black and white that might send U.S. race relations all the way back to the post-Reconstruction period. The new movement quickly developed its list of fanatical leaders: Stokeley Carmichael, H. Rap Brown, Ron Karenga and, in his special way, Cassius Clay. It fed largely on the despair and disaffection...
...Harvard hockey team makes its unofficial debut in Watson Rink at 2 p.m. this afternoon in a scrimmage against the Crimson freshmen. This pre-season showdown, the first of its kind in recent years, features a varsity squad that will be shooting for Eastern honors when the season opens officially next week and a highly touted rookie squad with several potential super-stars...
...their last two games Princeton and Yale have averaged 47 and 50 points, respectively, and in the last four have outscored their opponents by 115 and 111 points. But tomorrow's showdown should be a defensive battle, with the Tigers winning the League's first close upset...
...soul of a New England reformer. He improved lighthouses. He energetically earned the title, "Father of the Steam Navy." He was correct even about the future: he prophesied that the Pacific would become America's sea of destiny, and he warned that one day there would be a showdown with Russia. But his correctness -his insufferable common sense-fails to compel the imagination...