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Penn QB Bob Graustein picked apart the highly acclaimed Princeton defense for 239 passing yards enroute to the Quakers' upset win. The rivals entered the fourth quarter in a 14-14 deadlock. Tiger mainstay Bob Reid and Penn counterpart Jack Wixted had accounted for all the scoring at that stage of the pivotal debacle...
...General Education in a Free Society," commonly referred to as the "Redbook." The announced scope of Rosovsky's undertaking led many to believe that it would eventually call for changes as far-reaching as the Redbook's proposals for the broad, interdisciplinary "General Education" courses, that have been a mainstay of curricula at Harvard and many other colleges throughout the country...
Goalie LeRov Thompson was the mainstay on defense for Harvard as he made 18 saves on Cornell shots...
Unfortunately, the Lamentations were interspersed with organ works by the little-known modern French composer Jehan Alain. Despite the confident playing of Daniel Hathaway, the mainstay of the first tenors. Alain's eclectic and grating style created an unpleasant contrast to Renaissance ethercality. They emphasized that the unique Renaissance mixture of an exalted religious devotion and a classical sense of propriety has been irrevocably banished from modern music and the modern world...
...these skirmishes were part of what Europeans call the Great Franco-Italian Wine War. The casus belli is a glut of gros rouge, the rough red wine that is the lifeblood of most Mediterraneans and a mainstay of France and Italy's agricultural economy. A bumper harvest last year helped to create a Common Market surplus of 2.6 billion gal. At the same time, French consumers have been cutting back at the rate of one bottle a head; consumption dropped from a total of 1.3 billion gal. in 1973 to a mere 1.2 billion in 1974. Complains one French...