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...history, Yale failed to reach the finals in the event, which until very recently was an Elis trademark. In the consolation finals, the team finished first but was disqualified on starts. To top off what had to be an extremely disappointing weekend, Yale captain Nate Cartmel, in a coin flip for the silver League trophy, lost to Harvard's Mike Cook and the Crimson took the cup back to Cambridge in a plastic baggie...
...source, adding with either remarkable disingenuousness or extraordinary lack of judgment that the name was difficult to spell and he couldn't remember it. Eventually, under pressure, Bothmer produced that hard-to-spell name and some letters by the bowl's former owner, an Armenian coin collector in Beirut named Dikran A. Sarrafian...
...reached back inside to pick up his overcoat and briefcase, two black youths slipped up beside him. They demanded his money, grabbed his wallet (containing credit cards and an undetermined amount of cash), his Phi Beta Kappa key from Mississippi State, his gold pocket watch and his only coin, a quarter. Although he apparently did not resist, one of the thugs then struck him, and the other said something like, "Now we're going to shoot you anyway." Stennis fell from two shots, and the attackers fled. Despite his wounds, Stennis lurched to his feet and struggled into...
...that, the government suspects that some Moslems go on the pilgrimage year after year for a more earthly reason than paying homage to Allah. As well as allowing them to venerate "the place where Abraham stood up to pray," the trip gives them an opportunity to smuggle home gold coin, jewelry and expensive cloth...
...paid off by a mixture of patronage, not untinged with envy: "I don't agree with everything he writes, but in this particular case the guy's really get something." Mr. Hammarskjold, Mr. Eisenhower. Mr. Dulles, and Mr. Yovicsin receive their salaries in the same kind of coin. We all criticize them (from the safe purlieus of the Hayes-Bick) and preach of what we would de in their brain-puzzling jobs. But they are the men with guts enough to try. If they succeed in then chosen work they become heroes; if they fan they are forgotten overnight...