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...East's top eight teams were seeded strictly according to their won-lost percentages. Harvard and B.U. both finished at .667, but a coin flip gave the fourth-place position and the accompanying home-ice advantage to the Crimson...
Before the match sabermen Bob Barnard and Son Winfield flipped a coin to decide who would get a shot at fencing epee for the first time. Winfield won the toss and won the single epee match he fenced as well...
Only 25%. After 19 years at Yale and many visiting professorships, Gilmore yielded to the blandishments of Chicago. "We were after him for ten years," says Colleague Kurland. Gilmore sees to it that teaching and writing stay on opposite sides of the law-school coin. "For me, the difference between teaching and writing is the difference between playing music and composing it. I think I'd go to seed in six months without teaching...
...speculation against ster ling. It was small satisfaction that the French, who have done their share of speculating against the pound in Brit ain's recent troubles, suddenly found themselves tarred by the same brush: ru mors of a devaluation of the franc plummeted France's coin of the realm 21 fractional points...
...book moves confidently through the intricate levers and whirling spherical typeheads of IBM electric typewriters; it clarifies the complexities of a jukebox and explains the coin tester that automatically rejects slugs by weighing, measuring and magnetically testing the metallic makeup of every coin that drops into the slot. It not only describes how a home vacuum cleaner functions but also spells out the difference between less expensive and higher-quality machines...