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Coach Barnaby's dire predictions about early-season difficulties rang true again over the weekend as his Varsity netmen went down to their fourth and fifth consecutive defeats of the season before powerful Pennsylvania and Princeton squads...
...disappearance of the mascot is the second kidnapping case reported within a week, as band members are still searching for their stolen mystery pet, Six-da" reportedly abducted by a local brewery for dire purposes...
Explaining that a dire need has existed throughout the summer and the fall, Campbell pointed out that supplies purchased from the $12,000 collected here during August were still being distributed. "It is very unfortunate," he stated, "that the shipping strike has delayed them for so long...
More than once the miseries of Cartoonist Al Capp's (Li'l Abner) mythical, snowbound Slobs, "dropping dad from all kinds starwation," have found not too exaggerated counterparts in reality. In eastern Europe there were at least two genuine foreign envoys in straits almost as dire as the Slobbovian Ambassador...
...high plateaus by cold weather) would soon begin to appear in the markets. Hog feeders, viewing a record corn crop (673,000,000 bushels in Iowa), saw the opportunity to make a profit from feeding to heavier weights, so hogs might be late. But they would be along. "The dire predictions of a meat famine are without basis," said the President: "An increase in prices or the abandonment of price control on meat now would . . . add to rather than solve our difficulties...