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...Encouraged by the superb defensive play of 240-lb. Tackle Proverb Jacobs, California's twice-beaten Golden Bears pushed favored Pitt all over Berkeley's fog-shrouded Memorial Stadium, upset the Panthers...
...long day, a day without bread.-French Proverb...
...group, different in origin and language from all other Europeans. Some ethnologists consider them a remnant of the peoples who inhabited Western Europe in the Stone Age, long before the prehistoric Indo-European migrations from the east. In the complex Basque language-so difficult that, according to a Basque proverb, the devil himself failed to learn it in seven tries-stone is aitz, knife is aizto. Though basically a mountain folk, Basques make good seamen, like to point out that the pilot of Columbus' flagship, the Santa Maria, was a Basque. A Basque legend has it, indeed, that...
Ever since 1949, U.S. businessmen trying to operate in-or get out of-Red China have learned the bitter truth of this ancient Chinese proverb. Under the guise of smiling cooperation, the Communists have systematically stripped businesses while holding their managers virtual prisoners. Last week the last of hundreds of U.S. businessmen, who once did a $1 billion business in China, was safely in Hong Kong with a tale of seven years of subtle commercial torture. His name: Charles S. Miner, 49, manager of a big auto, newspaper, real-estate and insurance business in China for Manhattan...
...varsity lacrosse team will be up against the antique proverb "The third time tells all" this afternoon when it seeks the third straight win of its last minute bid for a happy ending. The team will face Tufts at 3 p.m. today on the Business School Field...