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...Dartmouth Athletic Department has advised Harvard fans who have no tickets to the hockey game Saturday to save a trip to Hanover. The game is already a sellout...
Long impatient with talk about Detroit's being "a shirtsleeve city," Anne Ford was determined to jack it up with some culture. Last spring she got the Metropolitan Opera to town for a fourperformance sellout. "Anybody who lives in a city, whether he is poor or rich," she said, "likes to think his city has polish...
...inner-circle businessmen who gathered at St. Louis' plush Racquet Club grumbled bitterly about Symington's "sellout" to labor, and to this day some of them remain convinced that his romance with U.E.W. was a bit of cynical expediency, however well it may have worked for Emerson Electric. The accusation overlooks Symington's authentic streak of respect for labor, which stems from his grimy days as a chipper and moulder in his uncle's foundry. Over the years, Symington has won the warm respect and esteem of the Electrical Workers' high-voltage President James Carey...
Cambridge fans will be treated to a game that also holds major interest and significance. A near sellout crowd will welcome back the high-flying Crimson "spoilers" as they play host to the third co-leader, Princeton...
...Sellout. In the novel, Mark innocently relays a story that U.S. security agents have concocted with the deliberate purpose of trapping Physicist Bloch in a lapse of loyalty. But the question of why Sebastian indicts his friend with a damaging yarn of his own is only glancingly answered. Chevalier hints that merely working on the A-bomb has corrupted Sebastian's moral sense. Another suggestion is that he has "sold out" to a nebulous power elite and forgotten the "little people." This charge reduces itself to guilt by dissociation: Bloch's crime is not so much libeling...