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While the Heptagonals were certainly a high point for the team, the indubitable peak of the season was an October 15 triangular with Princeton and Yale...
...team won, 21-16, and afterwards gave an enthusiastic press conference. A number of players were ebullient, but not as much so as cornerback Jae Ellis. Asked about the future, he said: "It's only going to get better. We're improving every day, and should peak at The Game...
Oddly, just as he was reaching a peak of power, Rostenkowski ran afoul of an investigation that started with postage stamps. One charge against him is that he took $21,000 from the House post office over two years by trading expense vouchers for cash instead of stamps, or for stamps later exchanged for cash. The investigation broadened to include accusations that Rostenkowski used campaign funds to rent a vacant office in a building he owned, put "ghost" employees on his payroll, and acquired ownership of cars he supposedly rented with expense money...
...first post-Woody work in Widows' Peak is wildly praised...
...works did well: one of David Smith's Cubi from 1963, a series long acknowledged as being among the peak efforts of America's finest modern sculptor, fetched $4 million; and an extraordinarily fine Arshile Gorky, Dark Green Painting, 1948, made its low estimate of $3.5 million. But you could hardly call a classic of Abstract Expressionism a contemporary picture...