Word: pars
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Dyke Benjamin and Eddie Martin are also somewhat below par, but, in contrast to Reider, should be healthy enough to run. Benjamin is recovering from a severe case of poison ivy, and Martin is convalescing from the flu. Dave Norris, too, has had only one workout this week since being sidelined with a head cold...
...first time in eight months Britain's pound was able to look the U.S. dollar in the eye last week. In London, Zurich, New York, Tokyo, wherever money is exchanged, the pound fetched its full par value of $2.80, halting the heavy drain on Britain's gold and dollar reserves and all talk of imminent devaluation. The renewed confidence in the pound was the result of a tough new policy of boosting Britain's bank rate from 5% to 7%, thus tightening up the money supply to curb runaway home-front inflation...
...five runners on the varsity cross country team will not go to the starting line in the meet against Columbia and Pennsylvania in New York this afternoon, and the remaining three are all somewhat below par. Despite these handicaps, however, the Crimson should manage to record its fourth straight victory of the season...
...student body, Marlboro has set up exacting new educational policies which have resulted in at least one national distinction for the college. In a test taken by sophomores and seniors last year at 56 small colleges, Marlboro came out with the highest overall record, putting it on a par with or higher than the national average of all colleges, whether accredited or not. Armed with these results, Boyden says he has little trouble persuading most graduate schools to overlook Marlboro's unaccredited status...
...scores in the first Ivy League contests this weekend bode ill for Crimson chances. Teams rated on a par with Harvard showed disconcerting strength, and in the upper brackets, only Princeton failed to live up to predictions...