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Leone Sharp, the number-one long jump and triple jumper, is "out indefinitely" and on crutches after wrenching his knee during a pick-up basketball game, while quarter-miler Nick Leone, whom McCurdy termed a "blue-chip" runner, has not been available all year...
...Terry didn't quit, and in a kind of Horatio Alger sports story (or is it Chip Hilton?), he went on to become one of the lynchpins of the fencing team's new success. He was also elected next year's captain on Monday, by a unanimous vote of his teammates...
Harvey labelled Silver, forward Len Adams, and forward-guard Arnie Needleman as strong prospects for the varsity next year. He added that "at this point Harvard does not have any blue chip applicants for next year's freshman team...
...week the long rally gained new vigor. The New York Stock Exchange's Dow Jones industrial average spurted above the psychologically important 900 mark for the first time in three months. Volume in one session surged to 21.4 million shares, lifting a wide range of stocks, from blue-chip stalwarts to long-depressed aerospace issues like United Aircraft and McDonnell Douglas. At week's end less hectic trading had pushed the Dow Jones to 910, a gain of 112 points from last November...
...reduction of foreign tariffs and quotas that restrict the sales of U.S. goods abroad. By agreeing to devalue the dollar before he won basic concessions on trade-aside from short-term liberalization by the Europeans for the benefit of vote-heavy U.S. farmers -Nixon gave up an important bargaining chip. The Administration's strategy now appears to be to warn the Europeans that unless they give in more on trade, Congress may not agree to devalue the dollar. The Europeans say that the matter is academic, since the value of the dollar is now being set not in Washington...