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Yale, which hasn't beaten the Crimson since 1963, discovered in the first event yesterday that the Elis were in for a long day. Ed Ajootian opened Harvard's scoring auspiciously, setting meet and stadium records in the hammer throw. His heave of 196 ft. 3 in. broke the previous record of 196 ft. even set in 1961 by Harvard's Stan Poten...
...group of five relatively inexperienced freshmen gave the Crimson a strong boost in the weight events against the Cavaliers. Tom McDevitt led off the strong Yardling performance by tossing the hammer 173 ft. for first place in that event. Gary Quantock then led a sweep in the shotput with his first-place 49-ft. 8-in. throw...
Once again, Harvard started out strong in the weight events as Ed Ajootian and Kinney won the hammer and javelin, respectively...
...half months since that last-minute contest, the issue of rent control has grown larger and more confused as alternatives to the state's laws have sprung up from all sides. Some lawmakers tried to hammer out a new version of the bill to replace the old one. Cities like Cambridge--which is interested primarily in maintaining rent control within its boundaries and secondly in keeping the law at the state level--have come up with their own proposals for maintaining an intramural brand of rent control. Some tenant groups lined up with the city to push for local control...
...obnoxiously. Suddenly he lashes out to knock down the younger worker, while the older guard just stands there and lets them escape. Marlow is confused until Zaleshoff later explains that he had noticed a tiny scar on the man's arm. Italian workers in 1923 used to tatoo a hammer and sickle on their arms in the early days of fascism to show they didn't give a damn if anybody knew they were communists. This defiance wisely abated, but Zaleshoff had guessed about the scar and had been humming an old Italian worker's song until he could tell...