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Would Harvard lose endowment money by banning business from campus? "If this were a blanket prohibition there would be no financial disadvantages," Smithies said. "The Dow crisis provides a disadvantage to the present policy. Besides, I'd be rather alarmed if someone would say, 'I'll give you one million dollars to allow me to recruit...
...first two were the conversion attempts. Crimson cornerback Bill Cobb stopped the first with perfect containment of a Big Red sweep. Safety Tom Williamson thwarted the second with blanket coverage of intended receiver Bill Heeps...
...desperate at this news," one paragraph read, "that I decided to try the hot water and turpentine method someone had told me about. We poured one-half gallon of turpentine in a pail and added scalding water over this. Priscilla sat on the paid and I wrapped a blanket around her. The fumes were supposed to make her abort. This was done three times a day for three days. The only thing that happened was that I burnt her bottom...
...Wells, Rich, Greene's ideas has already boomeranged. In her dealings with Braniff, Mary Wells persuaded the airline to paint its jets in pastel hues and garb its stewardesses in Pucci-designed uniforms. But a Wells ad showing an elderly woman passenger stealing everything from a Braniff blanket to the plane itself has had the unintended effect of dramatically increasing the line's theft rate. No matter how the American Motors campaign goes over, however, there are hopes that some of the company's cars will sell well. Based on optimism expressed by its dealers, A.M.C. last...
Through it all, Eastwood walks around with a woolen blanket covering a fleece-lined vest and shirt-in the midst of what is supposed to be an El Paso summer. He and Van Cleef scarcely look at their victims before knocking them oft, never waste a shot, and never utter a sentence when a grunt will do-which gives the picture, despite moments of serious relief, the feverish aura of madcap comedy. For those who like an elemental western with galvanic gestures, a twanging score full of jew's-harps and choral chanting, and a lofty disdain for sense...