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...second time this week, the elements played havoc with the varsity baseball team's schedule as rain forced cancellation of today's game against Cornell at Ithaca...
...decision was the payoff of a political bet made five months ago. After Ike's heart attack, when nearly everybody else in the U.S. wondered whether the President would be able to finish his first term let alone try for a second, Hall foresaw how much havoc Ike's failure to run would play with the Republican Party. "I'll cross that bridge when I come to it," he said, "and when I come to it, I'll jump off." On Sept. 26, two days after the heart attack, Hall announced: "There is no change...
...Havoc! In San Diego, Bus Driver Harlan Frank Beers, 28, was finally locked up for making false reports after he had repeatedly called the police and fire departments in a single day to announce that 1) three men had slugged him with an ax and tied him to the steering post of his bus, 2) he had received a threatening note demanding $25,000, and 3) his house was on fire...
...think our society is stable or mature enough not to be taken in by the quasi-sophistication of the film. Condoning marital infidelity in a humorous vein may go by the boards as fun but please consider the subsequent anguish, mistrust, and havoc it may provoke in the hearts of many married men and women. A RADCLIFFIAN--CLASS...
...international conference of atomic scientists in Geneva last summer, many charges were made that the age of nuclear fission might introduce an age of freaks and monsters. Ingalls replied yesterday that "Hydrogen bombs can cause such direct havoc to a whole population by their direct effects, that little is to be gained at this point by concentrating on the speculation that the impact is to be measured in mutations and inheritable monstrosities...