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Every spring the ruggers build up a team which is more than capable of holding its own among Eastern competition, and then everyone graduates, goes to play football, or treks back to the veld. And every autumn a motley assortment recruited from all corners of the University grimly tries to salvage a few wins from the fall schedule...
...began closing in, Britain embarked on an autumn grousing season, picked as its first target a member of the royal family. The victim: bonnie Prince Charles, 7, fresh back in Buckingham Palace after a long Scottish holiday. The question, quickly debated by irritable newspaper readers: Assuming that Charles has a brow, is it high, middle or low? Noting that on his return "the prince's hair was even closer to his eyebrows than usual," London's more or less crewcut Daily Express pressed the attack with a monumental grouse: "Not one photograph of him has ever revealed...
...extol his war in Indo-China by Viet Nam's spaghetti-bearded Red Boss Ho Chi Minh. In one stanza Ho seemed to allow that sometimes he lounged back in headquarters, boozing it up while his boys were out sniping at the French: "Leisure after work/on army affairs; autumn wind/ autumn rain and autumn cold/ Chills; then one hears/the sound of flutes/coming through the hills;/guerrillas have returned/and I rejoice that wine enough/ is left for them...
...past two years, through a jumble of fantastic stock swaps, stitched together 70 companies into the Bellanca Corp., then saw most of it crash last June (TIME, June 25). The victim: St.Louis' venerable N. O. Nelson Co., a large plumbing-supply house. Only last autumn Nelson had twelve-month earnings of some $200,000, plus $500,000 in cash surplus, more than $2,000,000 in accounts receivable, $5,000,000 in inventory. But last week N. O. Nelson Co. was smothered in a huge debt and had been forced to file under the bankruptcy act for more time...
Across the country, football provided its usual quota of autumn excitement...