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...most effective teams against the rush. Yale's offense is coming fast, but getting through the Big Green offense is no easy task. I think Dartmouth will have to show a little better passing attack than it did against Harvard, and if it does, the Elis could really get stung. But they're playing in the Yale Bowl, where, according to Bob Blackman. Yale has an automatic two-touchdown advantage. Oh well, the Bulldogs have played nothing but patsies and pussyfooters, so that makes it Dartmouth...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennies | 11/1/1969 | See Source »

...ending of the Algerian War brought crisis to the new student movement. Partially, the problem was that most of the students were tired. Colonial atrocities easily stung the moral conscience, but with the winning of Algerian independence the heterogeneous student population wanted to go back to its cates, its cinema clubs, its studies, and its love affairs...

Author: By Franklin D. Chu, | Title: French Student Protest: Losing the Romanticism Amidst the Chaos | 9/29/1969 | See Source »

...Stung by the indignity of the assignment, he rebels against the hospital rules, refuses to wear a uniform and grows careless of his patients' needs. Only the silent, looming presence of the head of the clinic, who has been nicknamed Red Beard, prevents the irate young man from quitting altogether. "This place is terrible," a fellow intern tells the young man. "The patients are all slum people; they're full of fleas - they even smell bad. Being here makes you wonder why you ever wanted to be come a doctor." It is through Red Beard (Toshiro Mifune) that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Epic Vision | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...Gaulle's hosts were stung by his failure to join at once with the other major Western allies in warning the Soviet Union after the invasion of Czechoslovakia that any aggression against the Federal Republic would be met by force. They were further disappointed that the French had just used their veto at Brussels to reject a preferential-tariff proposal that would have opened the way for Britain's eventual inclusion in the Common Market. As a result, the West Germans were now thinking about organizing a Common Market that would include Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia but omit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A SEVERE CASE OF ANGST IN EUROPE | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...Black Widows. King Richard and his men at city hall took comfort from the thought; yet they were badly stung by their critics. Always defensive where Chicago's good name is concerned, Daley and his orderlies last week were close to apoplexy. They labored around the clock on a 77-page report aimed at vindicating the behavior of the Chicago police in routing demonstrators during the convention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Chicago: The Reassessment | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

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