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Brown is the immediate objective in the Crimson's climb up the Ivy ladder. Harvard plans to take over the Bruins' second place position of last year and shoot for topdog Cornell from there...
With ten others, Hale piled into a pontoon raft, but inrushing waves from the sinking Morrell capsized the craft, pitching its occupants into 40° water. In the blackness, only Hale and three others managed to climb back in. Soon after dawn, Deck Mates John Cleary and Arthur Stojek died. "They were frozen," said Hale. "They had shocked eyes. They had funny expressions." Wheelsman Charles Fosbender died late that afternoon...
Despite a continuing industry-wide fourth-quarter slump, the man in the Chrysler Corp. driver's seat, Lynn Townsend, expects the company's 1966 sales to climb "very close" to $6 billion-an improvement over 1965 by an estimated $700 million. In that optimistic frame of mind, Townsend last week announced that he is moving up from president to chairman and chief policy officer, taking the place of retiring George H. Love, who in his own words has served primarily as Townsend's "father confessor" in recent months...
...Louis Paradise. The housing collapse has hurt markets for furniture, floor coverings, refrigerators and washers. Yet retailers note substantial increases in demand for costly clothes, furs and diamonds, despite a nervous stock market which could be expected to cut sales of luxury goods. Sales of color TV sets will climb from 2,750,000 last year to about 4,750,000; actually, TV makers could do much better were they not slowed by shortages of tubes, copper and wooden cabinets. Meanwhile, Americans have escalated spending for services by 8.5% this year, partly because of higher prices, but mostly because...
...ever heard of the long-nosed bandicoot? Or the brolgas, which break into a wild, wing-flapping dance at the sound of a bell? How about the racquet-tailed drongo, and the mudskipper, a hippopotamus-shaped fish that likes to skitter across mud flats and climb mangrove roots? Or the mallee fowl, which assiduously builds an incubator for its eggs and keeps the temperature inside at a steady 95°, come rain or shine? Curious specimens these, but Naturalist Gerald Durrell is only reporting what he sees, and reporting it with grace and an infectious sense of wonderment...