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...spells of the season and fell behind, 35 to 13. But with Bob Inman and Merle McClung leading the way, the Crimson shaved the margin to eight points at the half, and sustained the torrid pace to take a 55-51 lead. This was the biggest lead Harvard could muster; the team's momentum died and Cornell rallied for a 72-71 victory...
Rockefeller, in contrast is a superb campaigner who has met the issue of his divorce with more finesse and dignity than most politicians could muster. It is still his crippling disadvantage, widely regarded as having cost him the nomination. Senator Smith's candidacy, however, seems to give him an outside chance. If her share of the total vote pulls Goldwater's slice well below Rockefeller's, giving the Governor a significant upset in New Hampshire, he could conceivably roll on to subsequent victories in Oregon and California...
...final score--88 to 82--was relatively close, but the Tigers couldn't muster up more than a meow all night; Harvard jumped ahead 20-8, built up an 18-point lead in the fourth quarter, and then coasted home...
Cross-Bussing? Negro leaders argue that since Negroes cannot rapidly break down job and housing barriers, they have to muster against the schools-the decaying schools of central Harlem and Brooklyn that are 90% or more Negro and Puerto Rican. With ample evidence that such schools tend to "manufacture" retarded pupils because of overcrowding, poor teaching and lack of cultural stimulus, Negro leaders want compulsory integration with the better and often underused white schools...
...water-spraying terror, ripping off 100 yds. or more of line, straightening hooks, breaking swivels, or maybe snarling the whole shebang around a clump of mangroves. A little six-pounder can snap an 8-lb.-test line, and a big one takes all the luck an angler can muster. Recalls Golfer Sam Snead, who set a class record that still stands by catching a 15-pounder in 1953: "I was using live shrimp. I overcast, and had to feed the line back to get it to him. God, did he take it! He took off and ran at least...