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...third consecutive Eastern Sprints title, went into the contest expecting a tight race from Yale's eight, which last week made the finals for the first time in nine years. And tight it was--for half a mile. Yale, down by two seats at that point, hit a rough patch of water, and a minor crab made opened the race up to five seats...
...makes the official major league baseball after a 101-year Spalding reign, and the scuttlebutt is that Rawlings is turning out a rabbit ball. Says Cincinnati Reds Batting Coach Ted Kluszewski: "The ball moves faster through the infield." Adds a baseball executive: "Lay it in the lettuce patch, and it hops...
Whether overuse of credit causes marital strife, or vice versa, the combination often leads to a sequence well known to bill collectors and lawyers: debt defaults, followed by divorce, followed by bankruptcy. Oddly, say credit people, it rarely works the other way around; if a debt-ridden couple can patch up the marital quarrel, they usually can work out a way to clear up bills and return to solvency too. In other words, the family that pays together, stays together...
...even before George A. Meyer '78, the new president of the Lampoon, could promise to "try to patch relations up with the black community" during his tenure, he found himself defending a magazine piece he wrote this fall that HRBSA signalled out as particularly "tasteless" and "insensitive...
...where the plastic arts would exist alongside music, cinema, books, audio-visual research. Its creativity would obviously be modern and continually changing." The location: Beaubourg, once a bourgeois neighborhood between the Bastille and Les Halles, but for the past century a decaying slum. Specifically, planners chose a five-acre patch of razed ground that was being used as a parking lot, then called for an international architectural competition...