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...Disraeli even had a McGovern hectoring him in the person of Gladstone, the Liberal leader who thundered his righteous indignation at the power politics played behind his back. Gladstone was an inveterate moralizer who, as André Maurois once noted, "was reproached not so much for always having the ace of trumps up his sleeve as for claiming that God had put it there...
...half-past November, and time for Champagne Chuck Stewart to commence preparations for his annual pilgrimage from Golf. Illinois, to the Eastern seaboard. His venerable Spalding putter--the one he used to ace out the guy from Columbia on the seventeenth hole--seven cases of Hamm's Beer his DKI sweatshirt, a wrinkled and somewhat threadbare plain jacket from J. Press York Street. New Haven, and one very blonde Midwestern girl--all of it went into a creaking and rather obscene '64 Thunderbird, the same one he had tried unsuccessfully to unload on this ensign from Harvard when...
Some chairmen claim a further problem in the declining interest of freshmen in PBH. A poor freshmen turnout at PBH open houses and frustrating attempts to canvass freshmen dorms this year have convinced people of a changed attitude toward the kind of work PBH does. Membership figures (ace table at right) do not yet exist for this Fall, but a review of the last four years contradicts this assertion with a picture of uncanny stability. Only during the semester following the Cambodia strike did freshmen join in unusually large numbers. Other political activities probably account for the drop in senior...
...Liniste." Tiriac, 33, proved even more outrageous than his countryman, retiring to the backboards to sulk whenever a call went against him. That did not happen often. At one point Smith served a clean ace only to have a Rumanian linesman call it out. Another time a linesman belatedly ruled that an obviously bad Tiriac serve was out-only after Smith had whipped the return past the Rumanian. The calls became so bad that the referee, Enrique Morea of Argentina, took the unprecedented step of expelling one of the linesmen. He would probably have liked to include most...
American farmers and traders to sell their goods overseas at a gain. Like any poker player, the men who wager in the grain-trading business are able to rest a bit more easily if they know they have an ace in the hole...