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...seventh win of the season, but instead ended up dropping his third decision. His wildness started to flare up in the fourth, when, with one out, he walked Dartmouth's Bruce Smith and Paul Minkus. Smith was erased on a fielder's choice but pinch-hitter Dale Achenbach drilled a single to left field driving in Mikus. Indian pitcher Jim Shaw, who went all the way to win his fifth game of the year, helped his own cause with an opposite-field single past Crimson second baseman Dick Manchester's outstretched glove, sending two more tallies across the plate...
Sophomore John Emery got an infield single pinch hitting for Peters in the fifth inning and moved to second on a sacrifice by Phil Smith. Bill Cobb's popup fell for an error between the third baseman and the catcher, putting two men in scoring position on Hootstein's double over third...
French shoppers are inveterate food feelers-they pinch tomatoes, squeeze head lettuce, pull artichoke leaves, even give cheese a little poke before stashing it in their shopping sacks. Michel Turquet, 46, a former supermarket manager with a technocratic bent, hopes to change all that. If he gets his way, francs will come before fondles...
Introducing Idols. Bishop, himself a first-rate stand-up comic and successful pinch hitter for Carson in the past, could not seem to find his way. Using roughly the same format as Tonight, Bishop provided little more than late-hour tedium for viewers. His guests included Buddy Greco and Sonny and Cher. Debbie Reynolds talked about Girl Scouts; Danny Thomas kidded around to little effect. Everybody plugged everybody's newest picture, recording or TV show. Bishop introduced his rabbi and a priest, and kept referring to his jitters, which needed no introduction. Dragging his microphone into the studio audience...
...investor; he doesn't see the Harvard fund as different from the John Hancock Mutual Fund in terms of how it should be handled. His job is "to invest and reinvest the billion to provide the largest possible income." If his investments go the least bit sour, the pinch may be felt from Wigglesworth to Mallinckrodt. There's a hot line on George Bennett's desk--it goes directly to Cambridge. But some critics, with memories of the Middle South controversy, think a wall of dollars has sprung up somewhere in between