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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still, the fact remains: Centre's win was not a shocking reversal of form. Although the Praying Colonels had dropped a 31-14 decision to the Crimson a year earlier, they had remedied their main defect--a porous line. In 1921, Centre had already defeated Clemson, 14 to 7, V.P.I., 14 to 0, St. Xavier, 28 to 6, and Transylvania, by the whopping margin...
...fast spread of credit cards is based on one main assumption: most people are honest. Last week Joseph Robert Miraglia, 19, a $73-a-week office clerk from Manhattan's Lower East Side, showed what can happen when the assumption happens to be dead wrong. With a credit card and rubber checks cashed on the basis of credit-card identification, Miraglia told police he ran up $10,000 in hotel and travel bills and general high living in the U.S., Canada and Cuba in less than a month. Said Miraglia: "I always wanted to see the world...
...script has been knowledgeably written by Playwright Lee, and directed by Joseph (The Matchmaker) Anthony with a sure sense of the theatrical moment. Actor Franciosa gives much the most coherent performance of his film career and he is fairly well supported by Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine. The main trouble with the picture is the perhaps inevitable one that the characters are so actorish and attitudinous that they come to seem phony, and their problems unreal. They are so passionately and exclusively interested in themselves that the spectator may sensibly conclude that they do not need any interest from...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18--The steel industry yesterday proposed to arbitrate the issue of work rule changes--one of the main obstacles to a steel strike settlement. The union rejected the idea...
Felt said that the main obstacle blocking any such program is the limitation set on the number of free tickets by Ivy League contract. The HAA already makes complimentary passes available to many adult groups, such as officials of Cambridge, Boston, and the State House...