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...YORK--Ted Raymond's 2 to 0 decision over Columbia's heavyweight Gene Appel climaxed an uphill fight which saw the varsity wrestling team climb from a 6 to 11 deficit to eke out a close 15 to 11 win Saturday. This was the Crimson's first Ivy win in two tries and its fourth win of the season...
...most thrilling races of the B.A.A. meet Saturday, the freshman mile-relay team won its second race in two tries, as anchorman Art Cahn out-sprinted his Holy Cross opponent, to eke out a two-yard victory. Winning time was a creditable 3:28.3. Yale the third team entered in this race, scratched, leaving the Yardlings and the Crusader freshmen...
...tougher and tougher. Heavy frosts last February destroyed nearly half the nation's citrus crop, at an estimated loss of at least $80 million in foreign exchange. Early last spring, the discontent of Spanish workers, many of whom take two jobs and work 14 hours a day to eke out a living, exploded in a series of illegal strikes. Reluctantly, Franco granted wage raises that averaged about 40%, and paid for them by the dangerous expedient of printing extra paper money...
Under the black slag heaps and airborne soot of the Franco-Belgian borderland lie coal mines that plunge deep-2,000, 2,500, 3,000 ft.-into the bowels of the earth, using obsolete equipment and backbreaking labor to eke out small hauls from old veins. Close by the small town of Marcinelle is the mine called Amercoeur, the "Bitter Heart." There one morning last week, 302 miners-115 of them Belgians, 139 Italians-dropped 3,105 ft. underground in their steel-cage elevators to their daily jobs at the coal face. Above ground the miners' families, mostly poor...
...spender even in the days when spending came easily to India's princes, Patiala's Maharajah was an enthusiastic cricketer and polo player as well, and his enthusiasm for the hunt was such that he was forced to import tigers by the dozen from neighboring states to eke out his own rapidly dwindling stock...