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Playing behind Cooney will be Brock Stokes, Bob Ornsteen, Bruce Thurmond, Jim Jones, Roger Fleischmann, and Jim Bailey in that order. The seven-man team is one larger than the team which tied Yale only to lose in the playoff between Cooney and Fehr...
...France's adherents in the gallery - young students and girls with ponytail hairdos, as well as portly elders - were equipped with police whistles. Mendès quickly won his first victory when the executive committee voted, 96 to 87, to replace Martinaud-Déplat by a seven-man administrative committee. Back from lunch came the delegates, full of vim and vin rouge, for the rest of the battle. When Mendès took the rostrum, there was a crashing ovation. A fist fight broke out on one side of the hall...
After losing one of their centers in the second minute with a knee injury, the Tigers gambled by deciding to play with one man short in the back line rather than with a seven-man scrum. The Princeton forwards managed to dominate the game to such an extent, however, that the Crimson were unable to make little use of their unmarked back...
...Irving, Texas, a suburb (pop. 25,000) of Dallas, voters ended a strange school battle by a drastic expedient: they voted to abolish the Irving school district (by consolidating with Dallas), and thus ousted the seven-man school board that had 1). fired Superintendent John L. Beard, and 2) dismissed seven out of eight principals and some 200 pro-Beard teachers and employees who had protested Beard's firing by refusing to show up for work. Beard, who insists that he was fired because some of his teachers sided against Governor Shivers in the last gubernatorial primary, still...
...Then the seven-man jury files out-and the three magistrates go along too, to join in the deliberations and to vote with the jury. In case of a tie vote, the verdict is the decision of the chief judge. Because a record of convictions is the road to advancement, magistrates are almost automatically for conviction. Thus the defendant is faced with the uphill battle of trying to convince six out of seven jurors against the prestige, persuasiveness and presence of the three magistrates in the jury room...