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Early in the fourth quarter the crowd was told of Dartmouth's victory over Princeton which made possible a Crimson Ivy championship. Harvard turned down the tile offer, however, as its frost-bitten fans watched in disbelief...
...Camp Tamiment in the Poconos, Neil and Danny Simon wrote a revue each week for two seasons, and for the first time reveled in the feel of live audiences. Danny soon took off for Hollywood. But Doc stayed behind, bitten by those immediate theatrical laughs. Too security-minded to abandon TV, he went on writing for it-some 40 episodes of Sergeant Bilko, a year and a half with Garry Moore. But he used his nights and weekends to write Come Blow Your Horn. Then, with $250,000 rolling in from Hollywood for the movie rights to Blow Your Horn...
...Bitten. After 14 years in the House, Gore handily won the Senate seat of aging Kenneth McKellar in 1952, soon won choice assignments on the Finance, Foreign Relations and Joint Atomic Energy committees. He was the Senate's chief sponsor of the 1956 bill creating the interstate highway system, then killed Eisenhower's plan for bond financing and substituted his own pay-as-you-go tax system. In 1958, he was the first Senator to propose a treaty with Russia banning atmospheric nuclear testing...
...when Adlai Stevenson was looking for a running mate. Recalls Wife Pauline: "I had been picking vice-presidential bugs off Albert for a year, but when Governor Stevenson announced the nomination was open, I looked at Albert and discovered I had missed one and it already had bitten him." On the first ballot Gore, with 178 votes, trailed Fellow Tennessean Estes Kefauver and hopeful Jack Kennedy; on the second he saw the handwriting, withdrew, and supported Kefauver, who won. Again in 1960 Gore thought he had a chance, was disappointed when Kennedy picked Lyndon Johnson...
...Chinese train crew and the 73 students aboard the Moscow-Peking express. When four Russian border guards and customs officials tried to confiscate the documents, mobs of Red Chinese defiantly blocked the aisles. Attempting to fight their way through the crowd, the hapless Soviet officials were pummeled, scratched and bitten; finally they were locked into a compartment for five hours...