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...years. While the Bulldogs were compiling impressive records, no one, as Olivar pointed out Monday, seriously questioned his winter-time insurance work. But with the collapse of Yale supremacy following the unbeaten season in 1960, there have been charges that Olivar's part-time dedication to New Haven's grid fortunes has materially contributed to the lack-luster quality of Eli teams. The last two losses to Harvard caused considerable pressure to be put on Oliver to devote all his time to football...
...Green Bay Packers' player payroll with a mere $25,000, while baseball's 162-game season enables the San Francisco Giants to pay Willie Mays $90,000 a year. If the cost of a National Football League franchise is $550,000 today, the growth of the pro grid is decades behind major league baseball, which recorded a $2,800,000 sale of the New York Yankees...
...synthesis." R.P.I, chemists have taken nitrogen dioxide gas (NO2) and ionized it by squirting it against an electrically charged metal plate at one end of a vacuum tube. As soon as the gas molecules pick up electric charges, they respond to electrical forces and are whisked through a charged grid at a predetermined speed. After traveling a short distance, they hit molecules of vaporized benzene (C6H6) and stick to them, forming nitrobenzene (C6H5NO2). The hydrogen atoms left out of the combination form gaseous hydrogen...
Thin Hog. First things first: got to find water. Pa is in the habit of drilling wells with a shotgun. First he walks the lawn with a forked stick. The stick goes crazy because the lawn has a buried sprinkler grid. Pa fires a load into the sod just as the gardener turns on the system. "I ain't never missed yet," crows Pa. Granny peers into the deep freeze and complains that all the vittles is froze. "People ought to know better'n to store food up against a north wall," says...
...talked about a new Trans-Canada highway and a national power grid, side issues kept claiming the headlines: a feud between Diefenbaker and the press over the head count at his rallies, a tongue-lashing to a reporter who described a lackluster rally as a burst "Diefenbubble," attacks on the Gallup polls that showed the Liberals ahead. "What can they tell from a sampling of 1,700?" asked Diefenbaker. "I've been all across this great country, and I know what Canadians are thinking...