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...rather discouraging beginning, one might think. But for the first 30 minutes of a hard-fought game the Crimson displayed some of its steadiest basketball in a long time. Only a great effort in the final minutes by Bob Mahland, Williams' little All-American, saved the Ephmen form a major upset...
...Kolodney, wrestling at 157, won his match, 8 to 6; George Doub, wrestling at 130, drew, 1 to 1; and Red Grant, wrestling at 191, drew, 0 to 0, in a hard-fought contest with Bob Asack, all-Ivy tackle in football...
...tainted goal by inside Jim Wadsworth at 13:45 of the first period stood up for 70 hard-fought minutes and gave Princeton a 6-0 record and the Ivy title. Even if the Tigers lose their last game to Yale, they...
Traditionally. Labor Day marks the beginning of U.S. presidential campaigns, but in the hard-fought and suspenseful campaign of 1960, two rounds are already over-and both have gone to Richard Nixon. Round One was the much-tele vised convention process; polls show that Nixon's acceptance speech and his choice of Henry Cabot Lodge as a running mate have gone over with the public a lot better than Kennedy's speech (which swiped at Nixon) and his tactical choice of Lyndon Johnson. Round Two is the dead-end session of Congress, which is creaking toward adjournment. There...
...result of this is a hard-fought contest with its chief rival, massive Jersey Standard. John Loudon diplomatically insists that "this is not a horse race" - but every oilman knows that it is. The Group still lags behind Jersey Standard (1959 sales: $8.7 billion), but it is fast closing the gap. Its annual report, issued this week, shows that its sales climbed to $7.2 billion from last year's $6.5 billion and its net profits from $444 million to $491 million. While Jersey Standard's sales grew 5½%, the Group's sales grew...