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Handling an SOB once it has escaped can be quite a fascinating exercise. President Truman let one loose after Columnist Drew Pearson blasted Aide Harry Vaughan; Pearson promptly promoted a new fraternity, "Sons of Brotherhood." Kennedy, SOBing during the 1962 steel crisis, blamed his father for having told him that big steelmen fit the description. Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker stirred some trouble after an Ottawa meeting when his staff claimed that notes Kennedy left behind revealed that the President had SOBed Diefenbaker in the margin. Kennedy claimed he couldn't have done that because he did not know...
...other Harvard win came in the 800 freestyle relay, in which the team of Peter Egan, John Ritch, John Pearson and Chris Smith bested second-place Princeton by over two seconds with its winning time...
...Veatch of Princeton, who narrowly lost Thursday's 500 freestyle to Egan, made amends by winning the 200 freestyle in 1:38.35. The Tigers could not capitalize on the win, however, because a wave of Crimson swimmers followed him--Ritch in third place, Pearson in fourth, Smith earning fifth and Bill Cleveland 16th...
Other entrants were less realistic, predicting such things as rocket-propelled "space-hotels" and helicopter house-trailers. TWA President Richard Pearson said one entrant predicted that only monkeys would inhabit the world in 1985 and that air travel would be useless...
Forget about Army's Pamela Pearson, named the meet's Outstanding Female Athlete for her wins in the long jumps and triple jump and third place finish in the 200 meters...