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Penn, which gave the Crimson their first defeat of the year last Saturday by a half-length margin, has worked this year primarily at the 2000-meter sprint distance, and could be the eight to upset Cornell. But Parker is not pessimistic. "We're right on the brink of hitting a really good speed," said Parker, and if the heavyweights do hit it, anything could happen...
Just nine months after the 14-nation Geneva Conference guaranteed Laotian neutrality, Laos last week tottered on the brink of civil war and once again threatened to drag the major powers into a bitter struggle...
Only a sweep of the last two rounds carried Clay back from the brink of disaster...
...discovered the songs while studying composition in the U.C.L.A. graduate school. In Fellow Students Ted Rusoff, 23, and Larry Pack, 27, he found just the right voices to join him. They address their songs with earthy humor, belting them out with comic-opera polish and horsing around to the brink of buffoonery. Embarked upon their first big tour, they have bookings in seven cities and a Capital Records album to show for their success...
...knife edge. In the past decade, its economy has grown only 2½% per year on average; in 1962 it rose only 1%, whereas in the Common Market even a 4% growth rate is considered disappointing. Since 1950, balance-of-payments crises have brought Britain to the brink of bankruptcy six times. By draconian measures the government succeeded last year in boosting exports 3% for a new $11 billion postwar record, helping to maintain gold and hard-currency reserves. However, it was only able to achieve stability by cutting back credit and curbing industrial expansion. "Other countries have had their...