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Immediately following the 1500 meter event all participating coaches retired to the Special Exercises Room of the IAB for a scratch session from which will emerge announcement of final entries and heat line-ups for today's races...
...swollen" federal budget, he said, speaking from notes scribbled on a piece of yellow scratch paper, "is the greatest single inflationary force in the country today. I assert, without any fear that the statement can be refuted in any way, that we cannot bring down federal spending for domestic purposes so long as we increase our foreign-aid program...
Henry Wente in the broad jump continued his superlative progress as he cleared 22 feet, just missing the finals. The mile relay team of Sandy Dodge, Bill Morris, Jim Cairns, and Dick Wharton made the finals, but had to scratch, when Cairns, who had just run the 600 and the 1000, became ill. Neither he nor Dick Wharton qualified in either...
...Ameche and Carmen Mathews make exceedingly likable parents, and at its best, Holiday for Lovers is bright, amiable and even passingly witty. But as the play has no ribs, so the satire has no guts. Afraid to scratch even the surface, Playwright Alexander just gently pats...
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, the biggest U.S. brokerage house, has never put out a market letter for its customers. Virtually every other firm puts out at least a weekly or bimonthly letter, considers it as vital to business as a scratch sheet is to a race track. "When a speculator walks into our office," says one big broker, "he wants a copy of the market letter. If we don't have one, he'll march right across the hall to another brokerage office that does...