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...HAVEN - The Crimson booters affixed an exclamation mark to the end of their season with a 6-1 rout of Yale Friday afternoon...
...rout was begun, quite unintentionally, by William E. Conway, president of Nashua Corp., of Nashua, N.H. Nashua and Savin both distribute plain-paper copying machines made by Ricoh Co. of Japan-Savin in the U.S., Nashua everywhere else except in the Far East, where Ricoh has its own sales force. Meeting with security analysts in Boston, Conway remarked that Ricoh might some day decide to set up its own sales system in the U.S. and other overseas markets...
True to century-old form, the America's Cup races ended with the rout of the foreign boat. Australia's 4-0 defeat in the best-of-seven series off Newport, R.I., brought the U.S. record since 1958, when the New York Yacht Club revived the cup series with sleek 12-meter sloops, to 28 wins and only two losses. Senior Editor Timothy Foote joined the spectator fleet for the last race. His report...
...Women rout a rape-condoning Wisconsin jurist...
Until this year, Harvard has been generally considered one of the few universities that refused to comply with the efforts of the late Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) to rout Communists from institutions of higher learning. But this summer, the New York Review of Books followed the charges by Columbia sociologist Sigmund Diamond that Harvard fired him because he was a communist--which the magazine printed this spring--with similar charges by University of California sociologist Robert N. Bellah...