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Brown was soundly beaten last week by Yale--not one of the League's stronger squads. John Thomas is the Bruins leading runner, and he finished third behind two Eli contenders. The winning time in the race was fairly good, but it seems unlikely that Thomas will be able to challenge Harvard's top man, Ric Rojas...
YALE-UCONN -- Yale surprised prognosticators by playing Dartmouth even in a scrimmage. UConn stumbled over one of the worst Princeton teams in history two weeks ago, 10-7, but they won't be able to handle the Eli's new wishbone. Yale...
...Young Eli Broad, a bright, broke, freshly certified public accountant, closed what proved to be his most important deal in 1956: in exchange for free space in the small Detroit office of Builder Donald Kaufman, he agreed to do the contractor's bookkeeping. Broad quickly sensed that rich rewards awaited anyone who could bring order to the splintered, untidy, often wasteful world of home building. Within months, the accountant and the contractor formed Kaufman and Broad Building Co. and laid the foundation for one of the industry's fastest-growing giants...
...number of universities and foundations that voted in favor of management indicated that they may not be so accommodating next time. The Carnegie Corporation, with assets of $305 million, voted against the reformers' proposals at Eli Lilly, Merck, Ford and G.M. But Alan Pifer, the foundation's president, wrote to chairmen of the firms emphasizing the "substantial importance" of the issues. Trustees of the United Methodist Church's Glide Foundation ($6 million) wrote to each of the companies in the Glide portfolio that they would support management's slate of directors only if it included women...
Yesterday, the majority of the Eli squad chose not to race against Harvard next Monday, when the two schools were scheduled to meet at Cambridge. The race had been postponed last Sunday because of rain, and now that most Yale runners have completed exams, they reportedly view the commitment as an imposition on their time. "This is sad," said one Yale alumnus. "We didn't appreciate Frank Shorter when...