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...Bingham 880 for New England college runners, captain Fred Howard held onto second place for most of the race. Before the gun lap Howard attempted to catch the pace-setter, Wesleyan's Steve Paranya, but an old Howard nemesis, Art Freeman of B.U., moved up on the outside and foiled Howard's bid. Howard finished in third place 20 yards behind Paranya and ten yards behind Freeman...
...Wellington sat down to wait, what he presumed was Eugenie's little sister descended upon him. She stepped on his white buck shoes, untied his bow tie, mussed his hair, poked her fist in his eye, and jumped in his lap. "Get off me, kid, you shed," Wellington hissed...
Possibly Wiesbaden is a very good duty station, (I have never been there) but your article leaves the general American public with the impression that we service people are living in the lap of luxury, and nothing could be further from the truth. Most duty stations are dull and drab and economically a hardship on the average G.I. Here is a picture of our plush living here at Misawa. It is of our off-base housing, which we call with deep affection B-Battery...
...auto industry tooled down the last lap of its second-best year in history, the annual numbers game of forecasting 1961's production and sales was in full swing-with automen taking the high road and Washington economists the low road...
...Percentage Ploy. Last week, in Toronto on the last lap of a tour that included hearings in eight Canadian cities, the O'Leary Commission was mulling over proposals that included establishment of a tariff to keep out non-Canadian publications, subsidies and tax benefits for Canadian magazines-and doing nothing at all. The commissioners had heard much testimony in favor of the Canadian publishers' thesis, but here and there another voice was raised. Sardonically noting that as a regional publisher he had to contend with the same competition from Canada's national magazines that they complain...