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...grapplers did manage to pick up two berths in the coaches second team all-Ivy selections to perk up the season a bit. Next years captain Jim Stratmeyer repeated at 177 pounds and Milt Yasanaga filled the slot at 126 pounds...
...Defense is going to be the key," Perk said. And the key to the defensive infield with be how Parks tills the only empty spot in his infield, second base...
...perk up this familiar rehash, Updike gives his clergyman a bag of Nabokovian wordplays and tries to pass him off as Humbert Humbert (in Lolita, Humbert observed, "You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style"). Marshfield rattles off alliterations as if he were on death row. He describes a local nursery "which piously kept its Puerto Rican peony-pluckers in a state of purposeful peonage." With nary a blush he writes of returning home to the "fusty forgiveness of my fanlighted foyer." His frequent dissections of sex and theology revolve around a central question: How many...
When the rebate money does start flowing, it should perk up sales enough to create more jobs or at least prevent some layoffs. But how strong will the effect be? The Administration's own projections are not exactly enthusiastic. Unemployment will continue to rise but at a slower rate. One White House adviser estimates that with the Ford program, the unemployment rate by year's end would be half a point below what it would otherwise be. Economist Otto Eckstein, head of Data Resources, Inc., makes a similar forecast. He reckons that the unemployment rate next December would...
...business of being a politician. He ran a citizens' committee for Democratic Governor John Gilligan, chaired an environmental task force, and ate countless dinners of rubber chicken on the state political circuit. This year he beat Metzenbaum in the primary, and last week he defeated Cleveland Mayor Ralph Perk, 64% to 31%. Glenn leaves little doubt of his interest in holding a higher office or of his desire to get on the Senate Interior Committee so that he can work on national energy policy...