Word: upset
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...first half, as each came up with four or six straight whenever the other had inched ahead. The half ended with Penn desperately trying to tip in a rebound for at least a slight advantage, but Harvard gutted out that melee, and coach Frank McLaughlin led an upset-minded and pumped up squad off the court...
Perhaps Saturday's win was more a surprise than an upset. As Harvard coach Dave Fish said yesterday, "Penn was really stunned. On paper, they thought they had the better team. But we acted like winners-everybody was impressive...
...news of the tournament was Harvard's upset of host Yale Saturday. The overconfident Elis, long one of the nation;s top teams, had expected trouble only from Princeton...
Privately, some Canadian officials said they were "extremely upset" that the story of the escape had been broken by Jean Pelletier, a Washington correspondent for Montreal's La Presse and son of Canada's ambassador to France. Like a number of newsmen, including correspondents and editors of TIME, Pelletier had long been aware that the six had been hidden in Tehran and had kept the secret. When Pelletier learned that the Americans were out of Tehran, he felt the news would quickly become public, and his newspaper decided to break the story. This destroyed a Canada...
...tide has not flowed entirely in Moscow's direction. In 1948, after Tito persisted in pursuing an independent policy, Yugoslavia was expelled from the Corn-inform, the international alliance of Marxist-Leninist states headed by the U.S.S.R. China under Mao grew increasingly upset over Soviet "revisionism" in the early 1960s. All Soviet advisers were expelled, and since then relations with Moscow have varied from cool to hostile. Three other Communist countries are no longer dutiful Soviet satellites. Albania, from 1960 through 1978 a xenophobic bastion of Maoism in the Balkans, now scorns Peking, Washington and Moscow alike. Rumania, although...