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...varsity golf team took its first shutout victory in two years yesterday and boosted its season record to four wins and one loss, defeating Amherst, 7 to 0, and Tufts, 6 to 1. The match was played at the Charles River Golf Course...
Americans were buying more food than ever. Kroger Co. earnings hit a record $1.27, up from $1.14 on fewer shares a year ago. National Biscuit Co. expected slightly better earnings than last year, as did General Baking Co. Grand Union increased its dividend from 18? to 20? a quarter on the basis of record sales. And General Foods, buoyed up by the best first quarter in its history, broke into the elite $1 billion sales club for the first time in the fiscal year ending March...
...population is growing by 4,000,000 people each year, and the prosperity curve follows right alongside the population curve; 2) family income, even after taxes, is at an alltime high of $5,300, is expected to pass $7,000 by 1975, and individual savings are at a record level of $340 billion. Among the ads: the picture of a stork perched on its nest to illustrate population growth ("This Bird Means Business"), a shot of a homeowner on the site of his new house ("There's a New Wave of Opportunity Coming...
...Neill is the younger son of a proud Duncrana family dedicated to farming and to the twin pieties of Catholicism and Irish history. When the pieties turn out not to be identical twins. Dermot is doomed. It is 1940. and in the farmhouse kitchen the O'Neills happily record Hitler's latest victory over the British. By tradition. England's extremity is Ireland's opportunity, and the Irish Republican Army-after a long time in the doldrums-is "out" again. Its members have the illusion that Hitler's war aims include Irish "freedom." The young...
...final event, however, he showed his true stature. Bent on revenge against Betts in the 220, Landau came off his blocks fast and held his margin for the entire distance to win in 21 seconds flat, a new Harvard record culminating a spectacular afternoon...