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...track team should have little trouble with Boston College at Briggs Cage on Saturday afternoon. Old injurious and a post-holiday letdown could hurt Harvard, but prospects for the third straight victory this year are bright...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Runners May Romp | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

...yellow sweater they were given. Giving refunds in cash is avoided wherever possible; Houston stores have joined together in a pact against giving cash refunds unless, says one merchant, "a customer carries his protest to lying on the floor and kicking his feet." Since few customers have enough post-holiday energy left, they are usually content to settle for something else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailing: A Bell Ringer | 1/3/1964 | See Source »

Give It a Walk. This week, as the nation girded itself for its foie du reveillon, the virulent hangover peculiar to Christmas and New Year's, magazines and newspapers were filled with timely tips for the battle-scarred. In addition to stringent post-holiday dieting-for serious crises de foie, doctors recommend total abstinence from meat, eggs, fish, butter, wine, tobacco and coffee-Dr. André Soubiran, writing in the woman's magazine Jours de France, warned readers "your liver needs fresh air," and will invariably be "put in a better humor" if it is taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Ma Foi! Mon Foie! | 12/27/1963 | See Source »

With its siren muted and its red emergency beacon flashing, the ambulance sped through the quiet, post-holiday streets of Georgetown to the red brick home of President-elect John Kennedy. Driver Baucom and Attendant Walter Myers were admitted by a maid. A few minutes later they were joined by Dr. John Walsh, the family obstetrician. In her second-floor bedroom they found Jacqueline Kennedy waiting, with a white sweater and a tweed coat over her nightgown, a pair of white wool socks on her feet. She gave them a wan smile. "Will I lose my baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENT-ELECT: John Jr. | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...weeks the Wall Street bullshave been impatiently waiting for the market's traditional "summer rise." Last week, after two listless, post-holiday trading sessions the market bounced upward 4.52 points on the Dow-Jones industrial average for the biggest gain in a month, closed out the week up another 2.02, at 646.91. Whether or not this little bounce would prove the beginning of the summer rise, the surprising and heartening factor in the market's advance was that steels led the way. For the week, U.S. Steel rose 3¼, and Jones & Laughlin, Lukens and Youngstown Sheet & Tube...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: A Little Bounce | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

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