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...Crimson J.V. finished almost four seconds behind Washington suffering as first defeat in four straight years The loss which put a damper on the varsity victory was the first since Harvard's J V finished second at the Eastern Spring...
Taylor guided Harvard to a 12-3 season last year, but his squad did not fare well at the important Eastern championships, a prestigious event from which the top two teams are chosen for the NCAA's Harvard could manage only a ninth putting a damper on an otherwise successful season...
...even in restaurants. Yet no one suffers too much: alternatives include chicken, fish, pork, ham, sweetbreads, brains, tongue and squab. Most Cairenes tend to stay home these days anyway. Though it may not daunt Israeli pilots, the blackout, along with an 11 o'clock curfew, has put a damper on Cairo's night life...
...please don't, tell this to the Lady of the Suburbs. You'll put a damper, for a short while, on all her fun. Because it's going to mean a lot for her, a lot more busy time, a lot more killing time over tea and tennis and telephone talk. Not that King's money-making will bowl her over -- she's probably got her own bank account. But the sexual victory should clinch a cheer straight from her heart. "It's the principle of the thing" -- listen to her next evening over martinis with her husband -- "that counts...
Dunlop became director of Richard Nixon's Cost of Living Council, which has been assigned with the task of keeping the damper on inflation without resorting to government wage and price controls. Inflation is currently at its highest rate since the Korean...