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...game came in the middle of the third quarter. Yale had driven to the Harvard nine-yard line where it had a fourth and two. McCarthy faded to pass and was dropped for a six-yard loss by Jim Driscoll and Hoffman. But the Eli coach John Pont claimed the Crimson has 12 men on the field. The officials disagreed, but only the movies will tell for sure...
...Pont was none too happy after The Game, particularly about the Eli's costly mistakes in the second half. Pont shook his head quietly at a clipping penalty incurred after a play was over and a bobbled pass that was intercepted-both in the fourth quarter...
...despite the injury to Doherty, Yale's backfield retains a good deal of punch with a pair of halfbacks, Bob Bartlett and Chris Kule. Bartlett is the team's leading ground gainer, and Kule has reportedly been singled out by Yale coach John Pont as a prime varsity prospect...
...otic divisions. Today he is a vigorous member of G.M.'s finance committee -and has 688,046 shares, which will yield him $3.1 million this year. Close behind, with 645,176 shares, is John Lee Pratt, 84, who came to the com pany from Du Pont in 1919 and rose to become a G.M. vice president. Now a retired Virginia farmer who shuns publicity, Pratt so successfully keeps out of public view that he is not even listed...
...stylish as well as a sturdy business. Chemical processes like slack mercerizing (by which the fabric, not the raw fiber, is made resilient after it is woven) left cottons and wools horizontally stretchable, did wonders for men's oxford shirts. Spandex, a wholly elastic fiber produced by Du Pont in 1958, revitalized bathing suits, hosiery and undergarments. But the big breakthrough came only last spring, when Du Pont went one giant step farther with the discovery of a core-spun process (with spandex as the core around which staple yarns might be wrapped or spun...