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...Crimson entered the 1958 Dartmouth contest with faint hope. The Indians were a powerful aggregation, having lost only to Holy Cross and destined to become Ivy League champions. It seemed that the varsity, having won two in a row, had gone about as far as a Harvard team...
...unneeded lights, doling out quarters instead of dollars to their five children-Steelworker Frank Sekula, 41, and his wife Betty have managed to stretch their savings far enough to meet their necessary outlays without piling up any new debts. Betty Sekula, veteran of many strikes, has only a faint trace of bitterness in her voice when she says: "I don't think that either side in this strike is thinking of the betterment of the men. I don't see where we're going to gain anything. We've been holding...
...Only one faint whiff of danger marred coffee's future. The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week noted that U.S. scientists have tracked down more than 30 of the volatile chemicals that give coffee its flavor, issued a report that concluded "there is little reason to doubt" synthetic coffee is on the way at a price about one-fifth of the real thing...
...Lunik II undoubtedly blasted a crater, which Kuiper estimates as about 100 ft. in diameter with walls 10 ft. high. If such a crater happened to be in a smooth place, it should be detectable by a powerful telescope, under ideal conditions, as a faint bright spot. If the Lunik crater were inside a big crater or in a jumble of craters, it would probably not be visible...
...Kaufman kept rushing to the bathroom for refuge. On the other hand, Hart was a compulsive eater (success has since cured him of the affliction), but was too shy to admit his ravenous hunger; while Kaufman operated on their scripts with innumerable scalpel-sharp pencils, Hart would nearly faint on dainty watercress sandwiches or sickening fudge cooked up by the great playwright himself...