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PRINCETON-YALE: This is like pitting Captain Hook versus Tinkerbell-Tinkerbell without wings even. Yale's been faking it most of the way, and since I originally picked the Elis to finish seventh, they've got to start doing some heavy losing pronto. The Tigers are without Brian McCullough today, but there are some top boys behind him, so it shouldn't be a crucial setback. When he sang his autobiography. "Tiger." Fabian wasn't convincing. But Princeton plays the part well. Too much for the Big Blue. Perhaps...
...Raytheon's cost controls, arranged fresh credit from the banks, squeezed out new working capital. He saw to it that Raytheon paid its bills on time, to take advantage of the standard prompt-payment discount; at the same time he insisted that Raytheon's debtors pay up pronto. Anxious to infect the entire company with his own profit consciousness, Geneen on one occasion rented a local high school auditorium, used it to deliver a lecture on basic economics ("Sales are the volume of business done expressed in dollars") to over 1,000 Raytheon engineers...
...Peron's clutch of cronies, they were ordered to clear out of Spain pronto. Four of them did and ran smack into yet another fiasco at New York's Kennedy Airport, where they were promptly bucked back to Madrid because they lacked proper visas. At week's end, they tried a second time, with visas, and made it through to Asuncion, the capital of friendly Paraguay. Diehard Peronistas in neighboring Argentina claimed that it was an advance party and that Peron might still work his way to Asuncion...
...Johnson Administration was making an all-out effort on behalf of the bill. President Johnson himself demanded that he be informed, name by name, of the votes on amendments; members who seemed to be straying from the straight Administration line could expect to hear from the White House pronto. Three Justice Department lawyers stood on the sidelines, ready to provide replies to opposition arguments. The liberal Democratic Study Group, an informal organization of like-minded members, had its own 21-man whip system, successfully kept some 130 Northern liberals...
Last week the U.S. State Department released the pictures of the Soviet recruiting sessions, showing Sevastyanov hard at work at espionage, and demanded that he leave the country pronto. He did-the 27th Russian diplomat declared persona non grata since...