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...most eyes will be on the Harvard eight, prohibitive favorites in the 100th renewal of the Harvard-Yale regatta, America's oldest college sports rivalry...
Harvard's fantastic crew will stop reading its press releases this week long enough to pack off to training camp and get ready for the 100th Yale race at New London, June...
...Garibaldi has been kept waiting. Italy's Parliament in 1910 passed a law to erect his statue in Marsala, Sicily, but the technicalities took so long that inflation has made the original appropriation wildly inadequate. Having missed the 50th anniversary, Parliament decided in 1960 to try for the 100th. It passed a new law appropriating 90 million lire, but the design chosen required 200 million lire. The Ministry of Public Works approved the sum. The Court of Accounts said no, and for good measure annulled the 90 million-lire appropriation as well. Cleaning up the bureaucratic mess...
...Penney tradition that continues, the $40 million program will be financed out of cash reserves. By 1970, instead of being obsolete, Penney should be half again as big as it is now. Far from resenting the new look, J. C. Penney likes it so much that he plans a 100th birthday party eleven years from now to coincide with what he expects will be the chain's first $3 billion sales year...
...gift of the Class of 1831 and "copy-right Duveneck and Barnhorn," the statue was placed in the building on May 25, 1905, Emerson's 100th birthday, when the building became the first in the United States devoted to the study of philosophy. Legend has it that Harvard men used to touch Emerson's protruding foot for good luck on their way to Emerson D for an exam...