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Cornell's Ed Marinaro-the nation's leading collegiate rusher-has been named Ivy League "Back of the Week" for his clutch performance in the Big Red's 32-31 victory over Penn last Saturday...
What is the secret behind PHP's sales of 1,500,000 a month? Why do some young Japanese workers carry it around much as the Red Guards of China clutch copies of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung? Americans, among others, will soon get a chance to decide for themselves. The first issue of an English-language version of PHP is arriving from Japan this month, the newest import from the man who gave the U.S. Panasonic radios and TV sets...
Radcliffe's sailing team, turning in clutch wins in the final race, won the Women's National Intercollegiate Sailing Championships last June for the third straight year...
Before dawn the next morning, Nixon impulsively wakened his valet and set off with a clutch of Secret Service men for the Lincoln Memorial, where he talked for an hour with a group of drowsy but astonished demonstrators. His discussion rambled over the sights of the world that he had seen ?Mexico City, the Moscow ballet, the cities of India. When the conversation turned to the war, Nixon told the students: "I know you think we are a bunch of so and so's." He said to them, the President recalled later, that "in 1939 I thought Neville Chamberlain...
...both have 1,600 pages and include 155,000 words. The American Heritage publishers created an air of difference by plugging their usage panel, the glossary and the liberal use of illustrations. Booksellers were courted with personal sales calls and arresting ads in book journals. One ad showed a clutch of sullen teen-agers under the headline: "You don't buy your old man's ideas. Why buy your old man's dictionary?" By publication date, orders stood...