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Plungers & Brooms. Mayor John Lindsay, who pinned that name on New York City, tried to restore the jollity by offering the hard-nosed landlords a 15% rent increase. As the garbage mounted higher to draw flies and rats, Lindsay declared a health emergency and ordered sanitation crews to launch a...
James Lardner's hard-nosed man-of-the-world reproach to the Kearns-Levinson article in the New Republic ("Brass Tacks" -- no less!) exhibits the kind of sophomoric bunk that I do not usually associate with the CRIMSON. The rhetoric is fair but he didn't read the article. And...
The Black Knights came up with two narrow decisions. Half-miler Greg Camp nosed by Harvard's Trey Burns in the last 100 yards to win in 1:53.4, and Frank McCullough of Army avenged his loss of last week by edging Harvard's Frank Haggerty in the 440 hurdles...
The lean, hook-nosed Coppolino, 34, was caught up by the patient, plodding groundwork laid by Prosecutor Frank Schaub, 45. In contrast with the flamboyant forensics of F. Lee Bailey, 33, Coppolino's cocky Boston attorney, Schaub wove a damning case showing that Coppolino had the motive, opportunity and...
The penultimate race, the 40-yard breast stroke, was carried off by North House for a 61-58 lead over the Orientals. The water sprackeled with tension for the final 80-yard free-style as East House nosed ahead to victory by a bare stroke.