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...sports are so rulebound as tournament golf. A competitor can be penalized for carrying more than 14 clubs in his bag (two strokes for each excess club), for accidentally moving a ball (one stroke), for playing too slowly (two strokes), or for wiping mud off his ball (two strokes). Yet few are so strict or so harsh in their application as Rule No. 38, which holds a player responsible for the accuracy of his scorecard -even though he does not keep his own score. His opponent does: each player checks his score, then both sign the card, attesting...
When Goeltz teams up with Howell, a fierce competitor, Princeton has a superb one-two combination...
Cornell nosed out Princeton last Saturday and now looms as the Crimson's chief competitor. Cornell meets M.I.T. on the Charles after the Harvard-Navy-Dartmouth race Saturday. Comparing Harvard's performance against M.I.T. with Cornell's should give some indication of the relative strength of the two crews...
...lent them the money. Even so, those reserves last year fell close to the 5% called for by law. At that point, state and federal authorities forced Lytton to hand over $45 million of savings accounts (along with an equal amount of loans with good repayment records) to two competitor S&Ls. At the same time, the authorities blocked Lytton from using profits of the subsidiary S&Ls to meet his holding-company debts. Plans to raise $12 million capital in the stock market went awry. To raise funds to satisfy personal creditors, Chairman-President Lytton last month sold...
Nancy's record is all the more remarkable because few experts expected much from her this year. Only three weeks before the Winter Games, she severely strained the ligaments in 'her left ankle. The experts should have remembered what a gutsy competitor she is. In the 1966 World Championships at Portillo, Chile, she caught an edge in the downhill and somersaulted into a retaining wall at 60 m.p.h. "I've never seen any girl take a worse fall," said French Ski Coach Honoré Bonnet. "I didn't expect her to get up again." Nancy...