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...five-man tournament team flew back to Cambridge Sunday, exhausted and flu-stricken, after a 1-4 defeat to Ontario in the quarterfinals of the team competition...
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During the Peninsular War, French soldiers used it for target practice. It is a wreck, blackened and blistered: but of what a vessel! Spanish religious painting takes on the grand rhetoric, the "mighty line" of Marlowe: the arc of stricken figures at the foot of the cross, its profile ending in a folded blaze of green, gold brocade and crimson; the faces of weeping women, smeared and half eroded by darkness; the immense twisted figure of Christ, "quoted" from a Michelangelo drawing, that rises on the cross. Even if there were nothing else in the Royal Academy, this painting alone...
That was the last gasp for the Harvard freshman basketball team as they went on to lose last night, 72-65 minus the services of its flu-stricken star, Bob Hooft...
...Soviet Union, where he thought blacks had more freedom and where he sent his only son to school. Condemned at home in the McCarthy era as an admirer of the Soviet Union and a friend of Communists, Robeson went into a clouded decline from which he never emerged. Stricken by a circulatory ailment in 1963, he spent his last years in seclusion, refusing interviews, seeing only family and a few friends...