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Harvard had the ball and tried to work a cross-court pass to sophomore forward Floyd Lewis, who led the squad with 12 rebounds, underneath, but Princeton sagged into the middle to thwart the play...
American bombers hit the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos yesterday in an effort to thwart a drive that North Vietnam is reported to be planning in Cambodia late this month...
...Because another conference brought forth a food-stamp renewal bill that Senator George McGovern of South Dakota finds "obnoxious," he threatened a filibuster to thwart its passage. For the almost 9,000,000 poor Americans who now receive the stamps, the alternatives at week's end appeared to be either a simple renewal of the current plan or no stamps at all. McGovern was outraged by a provision requiring recipients, except women with dependent children, to register for any available job in order to get the stamps...
...effort to thwart conventional criminals does little to protect banks against the far costlier flimflams of employees. Embezzlement by bank workers cost more than $17 million in 1969, almost twice the losses from robbers and burglars...
About 40 cooperative enterprises have sprung up. There is a credit union, a food coop, a "people's patrol" that helps thwart petty crimes and serves as a buffer when regular police come in, and a legal aid office. A gas station has been taken over by students and renamed "people's petroleum." The most important of the new organizations: an unofficial city council that coordinates the volunteer groups and lobbies before the regular county board...