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Last winter, the Crimson matmen captured nine of 15 meets to rack up their first winning record in five long years. The return of seven of ten starters and a handful of talented reserves, along with the arrival of the finest freshman contingent in four years, promises to make this year's squad even better...
...need. It's something we fight all the time." For Harrah, a quiet ex-Californian who owns 84% of the company's stock, fussing over minutiae is a hard habit to break after 40 years. Recently he ordered a hotel restaurant billboard repainted after noticing that the rack-of-lamb dinner on it "looked raw." At 66, though, Harrah has begun delegating more decision making to subordinates. A close friend of many show-business celebrities, he still helps set entertainment policy at the company's two theater-restaurants. Acts containing excessive profanity or political and homosexual jokes...
...effective. To be sure, it failed to create a defense crisis for South Africa, which is virtually self-sufficient in arms production. In fact, over the short run the U.N. vote may even have played into the hands of South African Prime Minister John Vorster, who is anxious to rack up a big majority in the country's Nov. 30 elections and can now point, once again, to the importance of national unity in the face of worldwide censure...
...well-informed Yale defense were like horses with blinders--they had but one thing in sight, and that was tailback Paul Connors. But despite flagrant keying on him by Yale, Connors still managed to rack up 76 yards, thus finishing the four-game (2-2) Crimson slate with 507 yards rushing...
...rather have the team win the Ivy title than me rack up a lot of yards," Doherty claims. "Sure, it makes me feel good when people tell me I should carry more, because it means I'm doing a good job. But I'm not the kind of player who's going to complain to the coaches or make waves on the team--that stuff just hurts the team...