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Dartmouth once more took the lead, as the play grew sloppier and rougher, but another Bowditch field goal put the Crimson ahead for the only time all night, 19 to 18. LaRusso then scored on a jump shot from the foul line, and, minutes later, after Dave Grayer had tied it at 23-all, Chuck Kaufman sent the Indians off with a 25-23 halftime lead on his first goal of the night...
...support in its battle with Pro Promoter Jack Kramer (TIME, Dec. 15). the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia asked the International Lawn Tennis Federation to ban Kramer's using amateur-controlled courts for his pro shows. Vexed by L.T.A.A. sniping, Kramer warned that he could "get a lot rougher," added menacingly, "I could destroy the entire Davis Cup structure by signing up the world's leading amateurs next year." During a break in these interchanges, the U.S. Davis Cup team whipped Italy 5-0, moved into the challenge round against the heavily favored Aussies...
...York! Chicago!" Major Lyles and his three remaining crewmen leaped out of the burning plane, were soon rounded up by Soviet troops. But the five who had bailed out safely had a far rougher time. Hundreds of copper-skinned Armenian peasants swarmed around Relief Pilot Colonel Dale Brannon, Copilots Major Robert Crans and Major Bennie Shupe, first curiously, then aggressively hostile. The peasants marched them off toward a village, began slapping, kicking, hitting them, dug into their pockets for souvenirs as they loaded them into cars and trucks. The truck carrying Major Shupe stopped beside a telephone pole. One peasant...
...Sarnoff warned that all the sales gain possible from improvement in TV programing has now been registered. "The balance of our effort will have to be in sales, because this is a rougher selling period than a year ago." As a measure of the roughness, NBC last week was laying off a "couple hundred" of its 6,000 employees. For the fall and winter season, NBC still has about five hours of prime evening viewing time (usually figured as 7:30 to, 10:30 p.m.) still unsold v. three hours at CBS without a sponsor. At this time last year...
...lightweight race the Crimson crew had little trouble finishing a length in front of Navy, with M.I.T. third, to win the Haines Trophy. The time for the race over the mile and five-sixteenths course was 6:59.6. Last week, against M.I.T. alone, the varsity rowed the course under rougher conditions...