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...admissions department hasn't recruited enough talent to produce a winning team since 1959, and Brown has now lost 13 games in a row. That is, until you remember that if Jardine quit with his won-lost record, he couldn't find a job coaching field hockey at Pine Manor. At least Jardine used to have the consolation of looking forward to the annual battle for the cellar, the Brown-Penn game. But the Quakers scored more points last Saturday than any Penn team in 50 years, bombing Lafayette, 55-12. So the Bruins look like they will take...
...just thinking, here this guy Restic comes in and wants to throw over the whole thing. Like on offense it was rumored that he was going to show more motion to Harvard people than had been seen since tight skirts hit Pine Manor. He was talking backs in motion left, and backs in motion right, razzle dazzle in the middle, passing--all kinds of fireworks. He claimed that Bostonians were going to see points put on the scoreboard had seen east...
...Hughes, sometimes goes to bizarre lengths to avoid publicity. At his company's annual general meeting last year, he turned up wearing a face-mask; there are few photographs of him. Hyams lives on a Hughesian scale as well. He spent $1,700,000 to acquire a Wiltshire manor. He paid nearly $700,000 for an 878-ton yacht that carries a crew of 30, and has put more than $1,000,000 worth of improvements into it, including $48,000 worth of teleprinter equipment to keep him in communication with the world's financial centers. A dapper...
...Kremlin leaders have their dachas within the same compound. The most prominent dachnik, Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, has a weekend getaway spot near Barvikha, where he entertained Richard Nixon during the Moscow summit meetings. Former President Anastas Mikoyan has retired to Zubalovo, an estate surrounding a manor house decorated with marble statues, tapestries and stained glass. In czarist times it belonged to an oil millionaire; Joseph Stalin later expropriated the estate and included one of its mansions among his nine dachas around Moscow and in his native Georgia...
...team's strong playing both yesterday, and in their 7-2 win over Boston College Saturday will be put to test tomorrow. The entire team faces Pine Manor, a strong opponent...