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...this day, did Harvard, which now finds itself tied for third with Brown and Penn a mere two weeks after its Dartmouth triumph had catapaulted it to the top. Like the counterman at The Butcher Shop, the Crimson couldn't cut the mustard...
PROVDIENCE, R.I.--While figuring out how much change he owed a customer who had forked over $5 for a $1.97 purchase, the smock-clad counterman at The Butcher Shop on Elmgrove Street suddenly stopped and declared to a partisan Harvard audience here Saturday afternoon, "I've just got this feeling Brown's gonna lose...
Fortunately for The Butcher Shop, the counterman makes better turkey sandwiches than he does football predications, for a few blocks down Elmgrove Street a few hours later, Brown not only didn't lose, but in front of a standing room only Homecoming Day crowd of 17,000 at Brown Stadium, it exposed a Crimson outfit that, it can now be safely stated, is only mediocre at best...
...against the Swiss franc, for example, in the past eight weeks -hardly inspires confidence either. Unease about many of these matters predates Carter's Inauguration, but there is no question that doubts about the President's economic policy have increased the reluctance to invest. Says Willard Butcher, president of Chase Manhattan Bank: "Frankly, many companies just don't know whether to go forward with capital expansion plans because they have got no clear signals from Washington." A senior official of California's Bank America Corp. adds, "They are waiting to see what happens to the energy...
...only by indirection and with some country Georgia jokes about plucked chickens and soon-to-be-slaughtered lambs. He told of the elderly woman who picked out a chicken at a meat market, peered under its wings, poked its breast and tested its thighs, then rejected it. Complained the butcher: "Lady, I don't think you could pass a test like that." Lance also told of a zoo visitor who was pleased at seeing a lamb and a lion sharing a pen and praised the zookeeper for fulfilling the biblical prophecy that natural enemies would one day live peacefully...