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Last year at the Eastern Sprints it was a pretty nice day and the weather, plus the promise of good racing, brough crew fans out from wherever it is they hide in droves. But, to tell the truth, most of the races weren't that exciting--unless you happened to be a sadistic Harvard lover...
...ROOSEVELTS OF HYDE PARK by ELLIOTT ROOSEVELT and JAMES BROUGH 319 pages. Putnam...
...JAMES BROUGH 360 pages. Doubleday...
...Confederacy; though it is more Western in the look of the land and its yield, the state has never embraced the West's expansionist, assimilative outlook. Instead, in the eyes of the world it seemed aimlessly insular, obdurately independent-and comically backward. As then-Governor Charles Brough boasted 50 years ago: "You could build a wall around the state of Arkansas and its people would be self-sufficient...
...Frankly Ludicrous." Understandably, the commission report stirred up dissent. Stocks of TV companies, whose revenues depend heavily on soap ads, plunged on the London exchange. Said Lever Chairman Edward Brough, 48; "Exercising her choice in a free market, the British housewife has struck a good balance between the high cost of unlimited choice and the low cost of no choice at all." P. & G. pointed out that detergent prices have gone up only 8% in the last seven years, as against 18% for the whole retail price index. Said London's weekly Observer: "The TV commercials are sickening...