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...managed to finish with a flourish in 44 hours. According the B & S co-driver, a racing photographer, the mobile home hired a police escort from the county line to the finish for the standard rate of $75 thus missing all the red lights and other foulups that might beset other less well-planned entries. "There we were," said Parker, "fugitives from several state governors, finishing up an illegal and supposedly-a menace-to-society race under police escort...
Swanson assured us that his sole purpose in visiting us was to brief us on some of the eccentricities of Harvard in general and Holworthy in particular, so that we might be spared some of the problems that traditionally beset the ignorant and innocent freshmen. Swanson added that the idea of briefing freshmen was not entirely his own, but was a collective endeavor on the part of The Crimson staff to provide a more realistic picture of life at Harvard than was to be found in the introductory material put out by Harvard itself...
...HAVEN, Conn.--The Crimson varsity skaters, beset over the past week by fears of a lapse, proved their own anxiousness unwarranted last Saturday as they closed out their regular season schedule with a 7-2 victory over Yale at Ingalis Rink to coment Harvard's first perfect Ivy League record since...
...Agee's agonies and his nobleness are equally the affair of no one who cannot keep still or as good as still, about them and there is no chance that all of you can. But some of you can and some of you are hard beset and bound to someone in brotherhood perhaps in art and you may see that the brotherhood you know is of a kind really wider than you may have thought binding others among the living and the dead...
Meanwhile, the Tanzanian economy is sorely beset by failing crops, worldwide inflation and soaring petroleum costs. Because the government paid such low prices for basic agricultural commodities, farmers last year smuggled more than $50 million worth of sisal, cattle, cotton, cashew nuts and corn across the border into neighboring Kenya, where prices were higher, thereby depriving Tanzania of vital foreign exchange. The country's hard currency reserves, in fact, have fallen from over $100 million a year ago to only $11 million at present...