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...seconds earned their third place after a nip-and-tuck battle with Princeton, pulling away only after the last quarter mile. Times were Cornell, 6:06.1; Yale, 6:07.4; Harvard, 6:14.3; Princeton, 6:15.9; Navy, 6:17.5; and Penn...
...York's Metropolitan Jockey Club belatedly arranged to televise its last race of the spring meeting: the $111,700 mile-and-a-furlong Wood Memorial. And thanks to the desperate courage of Belair Stud's big bay colt, Nashua, closing from behind in the final jump to nip Mrs. John W. Galbreath's Summer Tan by a neck, millions of televiewers saw a thriller...
...sentenced to 30 days in jail after the Rev. Daniel Quillen, pastor of the San Domingo Methodist Episcopal Church, reported that during a Sunday-morning service McGlotten strolled about shaking hands with parishioners, repeatedly sang Throw Out the Life Line, and occasionally stepped out to his car for a nip of wine...
...treatment of mental illness is in the throes of a revolution. For the first time in history, pills and injections (of two inexpensive drugs) are enabling psychiatrists to 1) nip in the bud some burgeoning outbreaks of emotional illness, 2) treat many current cases far more effectively, and 3) in some instances reverse long-standing disease so that patients can be freed from the hopeless back wards of mental hospitals where they have been "put away" for years...
...This year's competition is nip and tuck. Right now there are four or five top teams in the running," he went...