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Harvard again eluded the Eli press and had to freeze the ball for only 30 seconds to sew up the victory. But for some inexplicable reason Scully tried a 20-feet jump shot-and missed, giving Yale the ball. The Elis got two chances to score. Broadfoot missed a jumper from the corner, and Howard Dale missed a desperation 15-footer at the buzzer...
...boys and girls in Milwaukee, Wis. To the rest of the world, she is the designer of the handsomest children's clothes in the U.S., and the envy of millions of grandmothers daily beseeched by their millions of daughters to get out of the rocker and learn to sew...
...article in the Observer (London) and the Boston Sunday Globe, Galbraith attributed Goldwater's ability to sew up the nomination to modern methods of communication and travel. A comvention, he said, has become "the merest formality." "Had there been more primaries, there would have been no Goldwater," he said...
...Like Me." For a while, it looked as though they were right. With the match tied at two sets apiece, Ralston broke through Stolle's service for a 2-1 lead in the fifth set, needed only to hold his own serve the rest of the way to sew up the cup. Sighing, Stolle sank into a chair at courtside while Hopman hovered over him, whispering furiously in his ear. What he said has been lost to history. But Stolle nodded, stalked onto the court, and broke Ralston's serve right back-with a perfectly placed lob that...
...blowing a 61-game lead. That put Cincinnati on top. So what did the Reds do? They went 34 innings without scoring a run. Along came the St. Louis Cardinals, ripping off eight straight victories, edging one-half game into first place. All they had to do to sew up the pennant was sweep a three-game series with the lowly Mets. who had won only 51 games all season. "Glad you're coming back," cracked Cardinal Manager Johnny Keane to Mets Manager Casey Stengel. "We need you." Like a hole in the head. The first time they tried...