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...Washington Packing Corp., a small San Francisco cannery, agreed to pay $226,500 to the families of two Detroit women who died from botulism in March after eating a bad can of A. & P. tuna packed by Washington. After months of watching its sales dive because of the botulism scare, the tuna industry is now convinced that it has reinstated tuna as the housewives' steady standby...
Deep into the fourth quarter, the Tigers held onto their 1-0 lead. Then, with six minutes showiwng, the Crimson's Chris Ohiri found the mark--quite by accident. His boot caused Princeton goalie Pete Svastich to dive to his right. But a Tiger fullback, Bill Hackett got there first, and deflected the ball into the empty part of the goal. Unartistic, perhaps, but enough to send the game into two five-minute overtimes...
With one dramatic exception, Cosmo Iacavazzi, the highly publicized Tiger fullback, failed to show any of his storied abilities in the first half. He gained a total of eleven yards in five carries, one of them being a dive over the line for a first down. A 13-yard run was called back because Iacavazzi was illegally in motion on the play...
...avenues leading from the city to Saigon Airport, army units quickly won over units of Ngo Dinh Nhu's crack "special forces" near the airfield, giving a free hand to air force pilots who were planning to support the coup d'état with rocket-equipped dive bombers...
...heels. However widely their techniques may vary, Europeans from Barcelona to Bialystok in recent years have taken to hand kissing with fervor and frequency unmatched in their history. After World War II, the custom seemed in decline. But today, men of virtually every class and calling on the Continent dive for distaff knuckles as assiduously, if not always so expertly, as do the courtiers in a Lehar operetta...