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...Premier of the Third Republic, Pierre-Maurice Rou-vier, casually made his mistress' husband a Legionnaire because "of the special services rendered to me by his wife." Once when he was having bad luck fishing, legend has it, Author Henri Murger (La Vie de Boheme) baited his hook with his scarlet ribbon and said: "Now they are sure to bite. This is something everyone likes...
...superiority under the boards (46 rebounds to 30) enabled the Crimson to race ahead 52-41 with 10 minutes to play. At that point the Huskies took over. As Harvard began to throw the ball away, Husky forward Fred Ryan sank two foul shots, a hook from the key, and a tip-in after a fast break...
...this Crimson quintet has poise, talent, and guts. They never gave up. McClung, who had 29 points for the night, collected a three-point play and a pair of hook shots underneath the basket. Aided by an errant Wesleyan pass and a traveling violation, Harvard shaved the margin...
...House. And they still had sad memories of how G.O.P. legislators had treated Romney's Democratic predecessors. Said a Democratic representative: "We needed Republican votes to pass Mennen Williams' and John Swainson's fiscal reform programs, but they were never forthcoming. George Romney was on the hook this time. Why should we have gotten...
Died. Charles Ruffin Hook, 83, longtime (1930-59) president and chairman of Armco Steel Corp., the nation's fourth-largest steel company (1962 sales: $918 million), who married the boss's daughter and ran the company with such a velvet glove (the industry's first eight-hour day, first group insurance plan) that to this day fewer than half of Armco's 34,000 employees belong to the steelworkers' union; of cancer; in Garrison...