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...late in the first period, Hall caught Wells by surprise with a lightning take-down and near fall, gaining a 6-1 advantage. Stung by the unexpected deficit, Wells attacked fiercely throughout the final two periods, but Hall stood him off to take a 6-4 win and provide Harvard with an impregnable 14-6 margin. Hall's defensive tactics cost him a point for stalling and drew the anger of M.I.T. partisans...
Since this is the first time in memory Radcliffe has ever cheered any team, the nine hope that Harvard, stung by jealousy perhaps, will finally relent and let the 'Cliffe cheer the ten thousand in the Stadium. Though the prospects are remote, their practices sound like they mean it. The ancient walls of the Radcliffe Gym resound with their cries and Patriot anthems, and few go away unimpressed by the obvious sincerity of their "mash 'em" cheer...
...powerful Yale junior varsity football team, stung by its first loss of the season last week, meets the Harvard J.V.'s today at 2 p.m. Despite the Yalies' record, circumstances may yet save the Crimson from what bookies would call almost certain defeat...
...first speech as Prime Minister, Harold Wilson expressed his regret that Foreign Secretary Patrick Gordon Walker, who was unseated in last month's general election, could not take part in the debate (he will probably be re-elected from a safe Labor constituency by year's end). Stung by chuckles from the Opposition benches, Wilson looked up from his notes and tore into a vitriolic attack on his predecessor, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, as well as on Peter Griffiths, the Tory candidate who defeated Gordon Walker at Smethwick, a Midlands industrial suburb that has colored immigrants...
Along with his other desires, Joe wants Lorna Moon (Paula Wayne), the white mistress of his married fight manager. The love story fails, partly because lovers must be appealing as lovers, interracial or not. Joe, stung by the white world's slights, is full of hate, and no more winning than any other angry young angry. The girl is not a girl but a soiled and weary woman who admits that men have come and gone in her life "like traffic through a tunnel." Typical of the show's erratic focus is Joe's response when...