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Harvard has not lost The Race since 1962, and then by a scant one second. Last year the heavies smashed Yale by a near-record 64 seconds...
Blue-chip freshman Pete Predun racked up a near-record ten points in his Harvard debut Saturday to lead the stickmen past Mass Maritime in the season opener...
...picking up speed. For example, the Government reported last week that real gross national product-output of goods and services, discounted for inflation-rose 8.5% in the first quarter, rather than 7.5% as first estimated. Corporate profits before taxes jumped 45% over the first quarter of 1975, to a near-record annual rate of $140.8 billion...
...when the auto industry and the whole economy were floundering at the bottom of the nation's worst postwar recession. Although few if any companies matched that 1,200% leap, GM's dazzling performance highlights a happy trend: corporate profits have already rebounded from the slump to near-record levels. Most estimates are that the first-quarter profits of all the nation's companies rose a total 40% to 50% above the 1975 period. The leap, of course, was from profit levels that were sorely depressed, but it still indicates that the recovery is proceeding even more...
Forego has won at all times of the year and has consistently carried near-record weights in doing so. He beat chief rival Wajima in the September 1975 Wood-ward Stakes by almost two lengths, finishing a strong season marred only by a late injury. The injury is a recurring swelling of the ankle called sesamoidisis which the horse has had since birth...