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...have brought hazard and death to the competitors. But last week, blessed by the balmiest weather in Rally history, a record percentage of finishers-331 of 363 starters-whizzed through the flag-draped finish gate on Monte Carlo's Quai Albert Premier. The only American entrant, Frederick Cramer, 48, a history professor from Mount Holyoke College, summed up this year's mild competition as "an agreeable hobby for middle-aged persons...
Competitor Cramer, accompanied by his wife and a Dutch co-driver and driving a Willys-Overland sedan, started from Athens, negotiated the relatively crude roads of Greece and Yugoslavia with little difficulty (unlike another Athens starter, Englishman Harry Sutcliffe, whose little Morris was badly shaken up by a large Yugoslavian sheepdog that rammed it head-on). Professor Cramer's trouble came in France. In the mountainous stretch between Le Puy and Valence, where swirling snows blinded drivers two years ago, the Cramers fell victim to the commonest of all traffic hazards, bungled directions, when they were sent down...
...This week Cramer had a chance of winning the "comfort" competition with a couple of in genious accessories:1) two loo-lb. bags of sand, slung on either side of the motor, from which he could release a trickle for rear-wheel traction when the going got slippery, and 2) an ultraviolet searchlight on his car's roof, which, Cramer believes, helps neutralize the glare of oncoming headlights...
Beni scored his third touchdown of the day in the fourth period on a short plunge. Kirkland scored in the last minute on an eight yard drive by Bud Cramer...
...University chancellor was immediately answered by Maurice Cramer, chairman of the humanities department. Cramer was quoted by the Chicago Maroon as saying "it would not be easily possible for the humanities courses to be in any closer touch with the real and concrete since the theoretical in these courses exists as a means to apprehend the real and concrete. In any case, there is more of the real and concrete in the humanities than there is of the theoretical...