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...year are common; a couple with two instructorships is in clover. In Palo Alto, one couple will move next month into a comfortable new house paid for mostly by a generous Stanford stipend. And hardly anyone can resist a "traveling fellowship"-the splendid European jaunt that so often produces scholars mainly versed in Vespas, Parisian girls, conversational Swedish, Oxbridge accents and appetites for paella...
Yale's first score came on its first series of downs, when quarterback Jack Cirie took the ball over on a 16-yard jaunt off right tackle to conclude a 35-yard drive. Harvard, which had been caught deep in its own territory on the kickoff, had punted to the 35 on a fourth down after an ineffective drive. Cirie punched the ball over for two extra points, to put the Elis in the lead...
...diamonds and my personal maid." The oilionairesses tend to take their recreation in groups. Mrs. James Abercrombie of Houston and four of her friends call themselves "The Flying Five" and periodically take off in one of her husband's planes (with pilot and copilot) for a sightseeing jaunt in the Caribbean or somewhere. Mrs. Ralph Fair of San Antonio often piles a gaggle of girls into the family DC-3 for a fortnight -with a hairdresser and a masseuse-at the Fair ranch in Montana...
Halaby's scoring jaunt was the longest since his brother Sam ran 84 yards for a touchdown against Brown in 1958. Another historical note: the Crimson's win was its first over Cornell in the Stadium since...
Lincoln & the Americans. Before taking over the governorship in 1955, Quadros made his first trip outside Latin America, a holiday jaunt to Europe and the U.S. with Eloá and his daughter Tutu. In Europe, he fell in love with London ("a man's town"). The U.S. was not so endearing. At New York's Idlewild Airport he had a raging two-hour argument over a lost vaccination certificate; he detested Manhattan's bitter January cold, despite all that U.S. friends such as Nelson Rockefeller could do to thaw him out. He went to Washington...