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Rutgers makes its traditional visit to Princeton to inquire as to the health of the Tiger. The Scarlet Knights, who found a relatively healthy animal at large last season, will come across a much tamer tabby cat today. All but one of Princeton's starting backs graduated, and the line is heavier and faster, but untried...
...decor have been restricted to a single distinct period. The Green Room is done in the Federal style prevalent in the days of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the Blue Room in the French imports of the Monroe era, 1817-25, and the Red Room in the gilt and scarlet of the Empire style of the late 1830s...
...London manages to thrive on modern risk while paying homage to 275 years of tradition. In Lloyd's five-story London headquarters, where it moved only six years ago, reports of ships lost at sea are still registered with an elegant quill, and attendants are clad in scarlet coat and black collar. Important news is heralded by strokes from an ancient battleship bell-one stroke for bad news, two for good. Last week Lloyd's had some bad news: it suffered one of its worst losses in Britain's great train robbery (see THE WORLD). This week...
...stomping Katangese surged against police lines in Elisabethville during the recent anniversary celebrations of the Congo's three tempestuous years of independence. The Katangese were not rioting against the central government in Leopoldville, they were pushing forward to hear the pulsating rhythms of twelve musicians dressed in frilled scarlet shirts and skintight black pants. It was Africa's favorite native musical group, the O.K. Jazz Band...
...white-faced steers. Like a latter-day Don Quixote, McCanless lays out his inspired plan to Paco: "We grass-fatten the herd on the trail, and then we sell it at top market. And when it's all over . . . we'll buy each of us a scarlet sweetheart and honky-tonk our tails...