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Harvard did manage to avert a shutout in the bottom of the ninth. Hootstein and Welz hit successive singles up the middle, and Hootstein scored from third on Neville's ground...
Columbia was as weak as ever but Penn was a powerhouse. The Quakers trounced Harvard last year, 7-0, and the Crimson did well to avert a repeat disaster...
...Louis K. Diamond of Boston and Cornell University's Dr. Fred H. Allen Jr., for developing the technique of total replacement of a newborn baby's blood to avert the effects of Rh incompatibility (to each, $6,250 plus $25,000 for more research...
...appointing the three-man committee, Johnson was able to avert the strike, which the International Association of Machinists called for 12:01 a.m. Saturday, to run 60 days...
...time high of $25 billion despite assurances that he had received, on the basis of early data, that they had leveled off -an anti-inflation sign he publicly welcomed two weeks ago. Price rises were announced for shoes, sheet glass, fertilizers and, despite Administration efforts to avert it, most cigarettes (a penny more a pack). Most worrisome of all was a half-percent rise in the crucial consumer price index for February, caused largely by spiraling meat, milk, poultry and vegetable costs. It was the largest increase for any February since 1951, and it came after several other monthly rises...