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Above $200 you enter the relm of racing bikes. These machines come close to the ultimate in light weight and performance. The frames are handmade of special alloy tubing, the tires are known as sew-ups, (very light with the tubes sewn inside). Having the tubes sewn inside makes them a real pain to patch, but there is no other way of making a tire as light (often less than 200 grams per tire) or as strong (racers ride with tire pressures well over 100 pounds per square inch), or as easy to change. While a bicycle like this...
...game played earlier at Harvard's Watson Rink, the Crimson downed Exeter Academy 4-3. Exeter took a 1-0 lead in the first period, but the Crimson tallied one goal in the second stanza and three in the fourth to sew the game...
...First Lady's liberation views developed in Talla, Sadat's home town in the Nile delta. "A woman complained to me of the way her husband was treating her," Mrs. Sadat explained last week to TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn. "She told me he had sold her sewing machine for the money. I decided I must do something to help such women win respect and security, so they wouldn't be tyrannized by their husbands. I started a center for social development and helped the women to sew aprons for schools and for sale in shops. Now that...
...Bruins, leading the Ivy League and ranked No. 2 in New England, need wins over Harvard and Columbia next week to sew the title...
...doubles the troubles that plagued the top portion of the Yardling ladder, conveniently disappeared as Harvard took the first two matches to sew up a team victory...