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...filled with upsets. The only game that went according to the polls was the Rose Bowl, and even that took a remarkable performance by All-America Halfback O. J. Simpson (who carried the ball 25 times for 128 yds. and two touchdowns) before top-ranked Southern Cal could eke out a 14-3 victory over a stubborn band of sophomores from Indiana. In the Sugar Bowl, thrice-beaten, unranked Louisiana State spotted unbeaten, No. 6-ranked Wyoming a 13-0 halftime lead, then bounced back to win 20-13. In the Orange Bowl, No. 3-ranked Oklahoma beat...
Dartmouth, Dix says, has "considerable private endowments" in the computer area. Harvard, to undertake the kind of expanded computer activity recommended by Mosteller and his colleagues, will have to eke out funds from the Faculty, which this year ran an unusual financial deficit...
After settling in Los Angeles, where his mother had friends, he divided his days between studying art at Los Angeles City College and working as an office boy for $8 per week, which, together with the small sums his mother earned by baking pastries at home, enabled them to eke out a living. Then one night he happened in on a performance of Martha Graham's modern-dance company. "It had such a tremendous impact on me that it changed my life," he says. An instant convert, he dropped art, began studying with Lester Horton ("a kind of West Coast...
...Quakers, who snapped a 47-game Navy winning streak two weeks ago and tied super-strong Brown the week before that, ran into a little trouble at Princeton Saturday, and could only eke out a 1-0 decision over the Tigers. But Munro is still worried...
Israel has changed. No longer are the Israelis an unorganized horde of European refugees who hope that the world won't notice if they eke out a meager living on a few square miles of sand somewhere in the Middle East. Ben Gurion successfully described the process of assimilating the diverse Jewish populations which came to live in Israel when he said, "It's not like a melting pot, it's more like a pressure-cooker." Visiting Israel, one can not help but experience the feeling of excitement and confidence which fills its streets today...