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...Vice President." Said a newsman: "Now I realize this may be a somewhat embarrassing question to put to you ..." Nixon broke in: "No questions are embarrassing." Continued the reporter: "Do you have any reason to believe that the President may be considering resigning?" Replied Nixon: "I would like to scotch once and for all, if I can, any rumors to the effect that the President, first, is in a condition which would make it necessary for him to consider resigning, and, second, that the President himself or anybody in the President's official family have discussed or are considering...
...Scotch-born minister quoted Damon Runyon's statement that "No man knows what his life is worth until he has had to risk...
...first quarter, the Princeton-Dartmouth game was buried in snow. Yard-markers disappeared, officials blended with players, spectators shuddered over a dwindling supply of Scotch and began to beat a retreat from Palmer Stadium. But nothing seemed to bother a lanky Princeton halfback named Dan Sachs-neither wind nor snow nor wet ball, nor well-drilled Dartmouth line. He scored almost every way possible, passing for one touchdown, running back a kick for another, intercepting a pass for a third, schussing over from scrimmage for a fourth. Fans with antifreeze and the determination to last out the afternoon saw Princeton...
...before he can get scarce, top-quality liquors, are illegal, U.S. Supreme Court ruled. Case was brought against Magnolia Liquor Co., the sole Seagram's distributor in New Orleans, which required dealers to take Seagram's Ancient Bottle and 7 Crown brands in order to get scarce Scotch and Seagram...
Saddened but stubbornly loyal, 15,000 British golf fans turned out on the Lindrick course at Worksop, near Sheffield, last week to watch their Ryder Cup pros wind up what promised to be a Gallipoli of golf. After a devastating afternoon of Scotch Foursomes (in which partners alternate strokes on the same ball), Britain's best were behind 3 to 1. The visiting Americans were favored to breeze through all of the eight remaining singles matches...