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...first time the Muppet crew met Edgar Bergen, who was the guest star on one of their early shows. "When he walked into our studio in London, they all gathered around him like children. And then the box was brought in, Charlie's box, and they all sank to the floor and sat in a circle around it. And then Bergen opened the box and Charlie came out and said hello and introduced himself around. He met Fozzie, and the two of them went on and on, all ad-libbed. No one moved an inch." Later, in Holly wood, Bergen...
After Don Fleming sank a jump shot from the corner with 10:37 left to play to give Harvard a 19-point lead, the cagers seemed to hold an unsurmountable edge. Some scrappy play by the New Yorkers, coupled with some careless mistakes by the inexperienced Crimson quintet, allowed Fordham to gradually cut the margin...
Hindered by turnovers and inexperience, the slower Crimson found itself behind for most of the first quarter of play. Long-distance tallies by Tom Mannix and the aggressive inside shooting of Mark Harris kept the Crimson close, and with 7:25 in the half, Fine sank two free throws, putting the Harvard five ahead for the first time in the ballgame...
...sank my teeth into one of those Philadelphia pretzels as the opening kickoff settled into Paul Connor's hands. It was Penn 13, Harvard 0, as I wiped the mustard from my lips...
...investors and speculators judged the policy to be not strong enough. The U.S. stock market tumbled into a deepening nosedive that carried the Dow industrials down 105 points in the twelve trading days before last Wednesday. Gold shot up $17 an oz., to $243, in five days. The dollar sank and sank, in five days establishing four successive post-World War II lows against the Japanese yen. To Washington's alarm, the dollar fell not only against the strong German, Swiss and Japanese currencies but also against some of the world's weakest moneys?the Italian lira, the Spanish peseta...