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Ayer Before the Colors Fade...
Then Marx started to fade--and with him Harvard's hopes, until the Crimson's Bob Stempson made his stretch move. In the last 150 yards Stempson swept by Bowman and Ennis, crossing the line 10 yards behind Busick, and Harvard was back in the race...
Brown had second place cinched before the race was half over, but Crain stayed within striking distance of the Friar sophomores, Harris and Powers, until the late stages, when he seemed to fade...
...began clamoring for elections nearly a year ago, when the Tories were reeling from the Profumo scandal and the inelegantly managed succession of Lord Home to Harold Macmillan's premiership. Sir Alec held off, gambling that with the passage of time the splotches on the Tory escutcheon would fade. Sure enough, the commanding popular lead that Labor held in the opinion polls has now all but evaporated: two of Britain's three national surveys in fact gave the Conservatives a slight edge last week. Snapped Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson: "Neither Monty nor Rommel asked the public-opinion...
...Italians have a word for what has been happening to their economy lately: sboom. An s placed before certain Italian words turns them into their opposites, and "unboom" just fits the bill. When Italy's postwar economic miracle suddenly began to fade last year, the sboom set in. Last winter and into the spring, the lira wobbled and fled the country in uncounted millions. The stock market dived, and inflation rampaged. Italy's economy, further unsteadied by continuing political crisis, looked sick indeed...