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...election, there was not just one issue; Duncan had other things going for him. A vibrant, crew-cut lawyer, he has put himself over as a colorful, forceful fellow during his two terms in Congress. A former seaman, he still enjoys a pinch of chewing tobacco, proudly wears Duncan tartan ties. He often reminds himself of appointments by jotting notations on the palm of his hand ("If I write myself notes, I lose them"), keeps on scrawling right up his arm when his schedule gets really busy. Morgan, a wealthy cattle rancher and construction executive who was a Kennedy appointee...
...Thames docks, steel symbols of the tens of millions in pounds sterling being lost each week that exports were halted. The price of sirloin in London's working-class neighborhoods was up from 98? to $1.05 per Ib. - a sign of the slow but steady pinch on imports. And Harold Wilson's Labor government, moving deliberately but diplomatically, took two steps to cope with - but hardly end - the merchant seamen's strike that, in its second week, was slowly strangling Britain's vital commerce with the outside world...
Harvard left two men on base that inning and five more in the next two frames. Welz's second hit of the day. Dan Hootstein's single, and Jeff Grate's walk loaded the bases in the sixth. But Brad Jonasson relieved Eli starter Steve Kehas and struck out pinch-hitter Carter Lord...
...Pale, pinch-faced little Jethro Furber, the nail-eyed reverend, was nothing but bones, and even those you could have wrapped in a hankie. His twisted figure was like a knotted string, and he hated his parishioners. With fierce Puritan intensity he preached burning, his whole inside crying die, shouting die. He worked in his garden obsessively, like a madman picking imaginary lint from his sleeve. He wanted women, imagined them in every posture. He wrote dirty doggerel and lied-his single skill. He lived in a thousand careening pieces, like a shattered army...
Dartmouth quieted down after that, but added two runs for emphasis in its last time at bat off Crimson pitcher Larry Melfa. Dartmouth lefthander Jim Shaw was breezing along toward a shutout until Lord, pinch-hitting for Munzel in the seventh inning blasted a home run to center field...