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After a close call, or should I say, shave, at Cornell, and about three days of solid pinball, the Crimson hosted Penn, a team which much like Harvard's has its head into a lot of different things. The Quakers, who last year won the Eastern League in the regular season and the Easterns in post-season, were hurting. Harvard caught them napping, and, with the help of a bungled Quaker relay, upset them. Typical of the kind of effort that the Crimson displayed all season was their unwillingness to give up when behind. They took three straight sweeps...
...Disc Jockey Dick Purtan and said: "Listen to this." Since then, Purtan says, "people have been going crazy, calling up to play Old Folks at Home, Happy Birthday and everything else." One Detroit lawyer is being driven to distraction, Purtan says, because his phone number corresponds to the hallowed "shave and a haircut, two bits" refrain...
Freshman Dave Brumwell, who appears headed towards capturing the award for the highest point total, took firsts in both the 200 yd. I.M. and the 200 yd. back, and added a second in the 200 yd. free. Pete Mikhalevsky continued to shave time off his 200 yd. breast stroke as he won for the second week in a row with a good time...
...miners and railroad signalmen. It is difficult, however, to imagine the Pay Board doing any worse this year, and there is some chance that it will do better, though perhaps at the cost of strikes. The business and public members who fill ten of its 15 seats intend to shave down a 12% boost due to aerospace workers, and the business members further plan to challenge any contract raise of more than...
...last week's celebrations, an hour-long parade recalled Iran's many dynasties. To represent the Achaemenians, who wore long beards, 200 Iranian soldiers did not shave for months; in the interests of authenticity, the government turned down a Japanese firm's offer of fake beards. There were also Sassanians, Parthians and Safavids-right down to the 20th century, when the Shah's father, General Reza Khan, a professional soldier of near-peasant origin, seized power in a 1921 army coup. He was ousted by the British and Russians during World War II for inconveniently keeping...