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...having twice been spurned in turn, has now been invited to join the Common Market. WE'RE ON OUR WAY! headlined London's Daily Mirror after the two-day talks had ended. At the star-shaped Bâtiment Berlaymont in Brussels, one jubilant member of the nine-man EEC Commission cried: "There is absolutely no doubt about it-Britain is coming in!" The Heath-Pompidou understanding opened the way not only for British admission but also for entry by Ireland, Denmark and Norway. By 1973, the Six are likely to become the Ten, with a combined population...
Koch turned in the most outstanding performance in the single-handeds. In a nine-man heat at Tufts, he took four firsts and two seconds. In a second heat at Tufts, Reeve, with 14 points, took a second to Spoon, with 11 points. Reeve, weighing in at a mere 124 pounds, had trouble with a severe, gusty wind, but after lunch it died down and he took first in the final two races...
...point we trailed by only 11-9.," he added. "A win at that point might have turned everything around, but it would have been quite a huge upset. N.Y.U. is certainly the finest nine-man fencing squad in the country...
...that year's Democratic State Convention. There followed a long gap in his political career, which reopened in 1950 with his election to the Cambridge School Committee. He served on the Committee four years and then ran for the City Council, where he has served for 16 years. The nine-man Council elects a mayor from its own membership; this is Vellucci's first two-year term as mayor...
Even though Frisbie is the only football player in the nine-man suite who is still playing. The Room, whose tradition began two years ago, still attracts a good group of Harvard football players for post-game celebration. Every original member of the suite played freshman football, and developed friendships there that carried over into rooming arrangements...