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Weight and ability are no problem. "They've worked out well," says the new coach. But he counts more on spirit than luck to pinch hit when he's tied up. "Their drive is good and may make the difference when I'm not there...
...Start with a pinch of salt. Add the juice of half a lemon, half a teaspoonful of Worcestershire sauce, two dashes of Tabasco, two jiggers of vodka. Mix well with eight to twelve ounces of chilled tomato juice. Sip slowly.-ED. No Place Like Jerome...
Tipped off by an informer, West Berlin cops were waiting one night last week when a burglar broke into a junk dealer's home. They got more than an ordinary crook: once arrested, Kurt Knobloch began to talk, and what he said made the pinch, in the eyes of a top West Berlin police official, "the most important arrest made in West Berlin since...
Public housing has done much to relieve the housing pinch in the years after the war. It cleared slums, built rural units and loaned funds to veterans to finance their own homes. Most important, it incubated a host of state and local projects, which have prospered with only technical advice and little interference from the federal government. Senate committee hearings in 1950 showed substantial satisfaction with the public housing program from both sides of the aisle...
Scholarship applications for the 1953-54 academic year have been reopened to take care of students "feeling the pinch" of the recent tuition rise, John U. Monro '34, head of the Financial Aid Center, announced yesterday...