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...Graham Hill: the 195-mile Grand Prix of Monaco, deftly guiding his B.R.M. around the twisting, hilly course at a record average speed of 72.4 m.p.h. The 1962 world racing Champion, Hill was trailing the Lotus of Scotland's Jimmy Clark by 25 sec. on the 79th lap when Clark was forced out with a jammed gearbox. The victory was worth nine points toward Hill's second straight Grand Prix title. > Brazil's basketball team: the world championship, for the second time in a row, with an 85-81 victory over the U.S. in the final game...
...domestic Peace Corps. Until such time as Congress passes the President's National Service Corps bill, Anderson-no kin to Admiral George Anderson, who was fired as CNO the same day-will serve as a "presidential consultant" on the project. > Telephoned greetings to Harry Truman on his 79th birthday. > Told his midweek press conference that he was "not hopeful" about the prospects for a nuclear test ban agreement with Russia. > Let it be known that he had rented his new seven-bedroom ranch house on Rattlesnake Mountain for the summer to A. Dana Hodgdon, a Washington broker...
...despite an unusually good defense performance, the Ell varsity was rather outclassed in the 79th gridiron meeting of "the ancient and honorable" rivals. The Crimson had 234 rushing yards as opposed to Yale's 85, and seven more first downs...
...will be a somewhat patchwork outfit that takes the field today for Yale in the Elis' 79th football meeting with Harvard. A remarkably healthy squad until two weeks ago, the Bulldogs have been hit by a sudden rash of injuries that have played havoc with their three-team system...
...horsepower days when practically everybody had a horse-and everybody who was anybody had them by the dozen-the opening night of the National Horse Show was the official kick-off of Manhattan's social season. Last week it happened for the 79th time, but the social season was off and running anyway, and the turnout of bluebloods, beauties and big shots was not what it used to be. And gleaming there in the Madison Square Garden lobby was the symbol of what had changed things, in the form of a sleek 1963-model automobile...