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...things considered but one, Tufts should have its collective head handed to it today. But that one thing is the Crimson's own imp of the perverse that seems to goad the team into winning the big ones and losing the little ones. Yovicsin has that in mind--and so does Tufts.BOBBY LEO (15) weaves between tacklers on a first-half run against Holy Cross. Leo gained 145 yards and scored two touchdowns...
Full of kinks that goad computors to explode...
...from Independence has said the same sort of thing many times before. But either the reporters had not read their newspapers or they wanted to goad...
...Asia's burden of religious, linguistic and racial antagonism is added the weight of history. New grievances as well as old goad Asians to seek what Calcutta Philosopher Abu Sayeed Ayub calls "the appeasement of the ghosts of our ancestors by slaughtering members of another community." Conquerors have come and gone across Asia, sowing rancor as they marched. For generations after the Burmese raped Siam, Thai women wore crewcuts to avoid being hauled off by the hair. During World War II, brutality by the Japanese earned them loathing throughout Asia; until recently, any Japanese who toured the Philippines risked...
...place to shop. Miss Custin intends to spruce up outside and inside, as she did in Philadelphia. "Display," she says, "is the showmanship of retailing." She will add boutiques to show off the 20% of avant-garde items that persuade shoppers to pause for the other 80%, will also goad buyers to create a common image for the dozen Bonwit stores...