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...Bulldogs are 4-8 overall, 2-2 in the Ivy League, and their last game found them in Providence, Rhode Island on the wrong end of a 102-70 score. The loss to Brown was the fifth in the Elis' extended road trip...
Brown took the University of Rhode Island, 76-67, and then dropped games to Davidson, 103-84, and Boston College, 73-71, before beating Yale. On Wednesday night, the Bruins took Yale by seven...
...Rhode Island, where the whining high school student essay is traditionally adopted as the Governor's official Thanksgiving proclamation, 17-year-old Mary Moran composed a sharp attack on "the absurdity of this holiday. Thanksgiving seems to be pretended, a farce, little more than an outdated tradition no one has yet found time to discard." Said a dismayed Governor Philip Noel: "I could not sign that as an expression of my thinking. Everyone in this country has something to be thankful for." He should not have been quite so dismayed, since Mary Moran's essay went on to express...
...President's message stirred an immediate response. New Jersey reduced speeds on its major tollways from 60 m.p.h. to 50 m.p.h., and California cut its freeway limits from 70 m.p.h. to 65 m.p.h. Alaska, Arizona, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, New Jersey and Rhode Island all ordered driving speeds for state-owned vehicles held to 50 m.p.h. Companies also took steps toward conservation. The Coca-Cola Co. shut off all lighted outdoor advertising signs and urged independent bottlers in 50 cities to follow its lead. Sears, Roebuck & Co. ordered temperatures in its stores lowered to 68° and eliminated all Christmas...
...played as a team, and it was our best game of the season," she said. "However, our chances in Rhode Island will depend on who we play, but playing three games in two days may pull us together for the rest of the season...