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...Terriers (17-4-1), stung by the December loss to Harvard and last Saturday's upset by Colgate, put on one of their finest performances of the season before a sellout crowd of 15,003 in Boston Garden...
Only once did Ford's partisanship lead him into an uncharacteristically harsh attack on a fellow public servant. After the Nixon Administration was stung by Senate rebuffs of two nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court, Ford led an impeachment drive against Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. Ford charged that Douglas had received an annual retainer of $12,000 from the Albert Parvin Foundation, which reportedly had underworld connections in Las Vegas. Ford also denounced the Justice for writing an article for Evergreen Review in which he seemed to sanction violent revolution in America. Waving a copy of the magazine...
...figure in this shifting Republican sentiment is Arizona's John Rhodes, the party's respected House leader. Critical of the White House tape transcripts, he had suggested that the President might consider resignation-and was stung by irate letters from party hardliners. Since then, Rhodes has been meeting with Republicans on the Judiciary Committee. "We give them the benefit of our advice, and we're briefed by them," he says. In fact, he is highly influential...
Despite the agreement, and probable parliamentary approval of it this week, Italy's troubles were far from over. For one thing, Christian Democratic factions, which have been stung by the Sardinian elections, are engaged in unsettling feuds among themselves. If the bickering goes too far, it could bring down Rumor's coalition. Beyond that, Rumor and his reconstituted government still have to face popular reaction to an unpopular list of stiff new taxes...
Radcliffe's second doubles entry, sophomore Maude Wood and freshman Sukie Magraw, encountered few problems in disposing of a Smith team, 6-3, 6-2, in the first round. They then stung the third-seeded Havemeyer-Mercer duo from Yale with a come-from-behind 7-5, 6-1 victory. Trailing, 5-2, in the first set, the pair regrouped and swept the next five games. They easily ran out the next set to take the match...