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...used wherever the plaster might pull on body hair. But Segal can never cast the whole figure in one piece-a complete cast would cut off the body's pores from the outer air and might prove as lethal to the model as gold paint was to the hapless girl in Goldfinger...
...Harvard varsity squash team romped to its second straight victory by soundly thrashing a hapless Amherst squad, 9-0, yesterday at Hemenway Gymnasium. Harvard lost only one individual game, as eight of the nine players coasted to decisive 3-0 victories...
With smooth precision Harvard's powerhouse varsity fencing team rolled over a hapless Holy Cross squad, 27-3, on Saturday in the IAB. Once again the sabre squad led the rout, with Captain Ron Winfield and sophomore Larry Cetrulo and Pat Parkhurst all undefeated...
...Because hapless Truman Newberry spent the then shocking sum of $195,000 to win a U.S. Senate seat from Michigan in 1918, Congress-six years later -passed the Corrupt Practices Act. The law's principal proviso is that no single donor may give more than $5,000 to any one national campaign organization. As a result, candidates who are seriously interested in winning commonly set up dozens of such organizations; thus a big contributor can simply spread his largesse around in $5,000 wads...
Despite bright expectations that PBL could avoid bickering and office politics, the lab became embroiled in the same sort of power struggles so notorious at the commercial networks. Executive Director Westin, a 39-year-old former CBS producer, was the hapless mediator. His staff members were fractious because they did not feel they had freedom enough to experiment. The managers of many of the 130-odd public TV stations that carry PBL protested, on the contrary, that the programming was too avant-garde for their audiences. As the lab seemed to flounder, the Editorial Policy Board, a group of outsiders...