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Surprising Harvard with the medieval seven-man wedge, Samuel Tech dominated the oval for over three-fourths of the hour, and held the Crimson's famed Waterloo sprint to an embarrassingly scant 12 furlongs...
...keep buttoned up. "Her fundamental attributes," said one Mirror man demurely, "are always covered by a towel." Occasionally the towel is about the size of an un-Sanforized dishcloth. Britons brightened at Jane's return, but the august Guardian, fully aware that Jane had wed Georgie a scant 22 months ago, was aghast at the sudden appearance of a teen-aged daughter. "Can it be parthenogenesis?" asked the Guardian in its "London Letter" column. "There is a slight accent of scandal about the whole thing...
During that first Furcolo campaign, O'Brien devised many of the campaign techniques that later became standard operating procedure for John Kennedy's state and national efforts. But 1946 was a Republican year, and Furcolo was defeated by a scant 3,295 votes. As soon as the returns were in, O'Brien went methodically to work on the 1948 campaign. And in the second Furcolo race, O'Brien brought in a winner, with a 15,000 plurality. In gratitude, Foster Furcolo asked O'Brien to come to Washington as his administrative assistant. Two years later...
Profits in Peace. There was scant chance that the Big Three would agree to profit sharing. Romney, growled Ford President John Dykstra, is "not going to write the contract for Ford Motor Co.'' But the American Motors settlement was bound to put pressure on the Big Three to improve their offer. It was doubtful that the Big Three and the union could reach agreement before the Aug. 31 deadline, and the U.A.W. has vowed that it will not work without a contract. Oddly enough, Labor Day, which falls only four days after the deadline, provides a special incentive...
...husky government subsidy, should hit break-even well short of 200. Even subsidies have not turned the trick for Britain's jet manufacturers. De Havilland, which led the world with the original, ill-starred Comet, has sold only 63 of the redesigned Comet IVs. has scant hope of reaching its estimated break-even point of 80-90 sales. Vickers, which hopes to have its long-range VC-io ready for delivery in 1963. is painfully aware that this is apt to be too late to break the 707's hold on the market...