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...foilists were equally easy victors over the Judges. Returning after missing two matches, Phillippe Bennett quickly stung his opponent, and Don Valentine, a lefty, used his long reach on his diminutive Brandeis adversaries to sweep to 5-0, 5-0, and 5-2 decisions. Confronted by two lefthanders, Howard Weiss recovered in time to tally three victories...
...Harvard junior varsity and freshman football teams, stung by convincing defeats at the hands of Dartmouth two weeks ago, will attempt to rebound today against Princeton in games to be played here...
...should a Republican Department of Justice and Republican prosecutors be out to get him? Agnew gave this answer: "Individuals in the upper echelons of the Department of Justice have been severely stung by their ineptness in their prosecution of the Watergate case. They have been severely stung that the President and the Attorney General have found it necessary to appoint a special prosecutor, and they are trying to recoup their reputations at my expense. I'm a big trophy. Well, I'm not going to fall down and be his [Petersen's] victim, I can assure you." He added that...
After three weeks of heavyhanded military rule, some Chileans who at first supported the coup were beginning to have second thoughts. Leaders of the moderate Christian Democrat Party, stung because they had been unexpectedly suppressed when the Socialists and Communists were banned, advised their members to serve the junta only as "technicians." The new government, however, appeared to have general support from the middle and upper classes. The truckers, whose 45-day strike was partly responsible for instigating the coup, were on the road again. "Those trucks started up out of pure joy," said one trucker. Copper mines, plagued...
...funeral directors of America, still smarting over The American Way of Death, must now line up behind the nation's wardens in the goodly company of those well stung by Jessica Mitford. "Our great 'know-it-all' on prisons," the American Association of Wardens and Superintendents has muttered through its collectively clenched teeth at the author of what might be subtitled The American Way of Injustice...