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...Eliot House soccer team recovered from an opening game setback and then powered its way to the league title with 12 straight victories. The Elephants' winning skein included a string of ten consecutive shutouts...
Untangling the knotted skein of corruption that spewed from the power reel of Teamster Boss Dave Beck, the select Senate committee investigating labor racketeering has turned up some devastating evidence. Even so, many a rank-and-file teamster could still tell himself that Good Old Dave had the boys' interests at heart, no matter what he did. Last week, as the hearings took on a new reel. Good Old Dave turned out to be Bad Old Dave for even the toughest teamster. Reason: testimony plainly showed that Dave 1) used the Teamsters, whenever it suited his money-hungry whims...
...Crimson tennis team, after compiling an excellent 16-0 record this year and running out a victory skein of twenty straight matches fell victim once again to the Princeton Jinx which has hounded the Crimson for many years...
...thing the curious doctor was busy disentangling and studying last week looked like an endless skein of white rubber band. Actually, he explained happily, it was 100 ft. of rare tapeworm which he found in the intestine of a whale captured off Catalina Island. Although his specialization is the dwarf mouse tapeworm, a common human parasite, Dr. Donald Heyneman, 32, of the University of California at Los Angeles, finds all tapeworms fascinating. He hates to pass up a chance to find a new species, for the surface of tape-wormology has hardly been scratched...
...freshman match, the Yardling squash team ended its season undefeated by topping Yale, 5 to 4. Captain Gerry Emmet had his undefeated skein broken by the Elis' top player--on both freshman and varsity squads--Sonny Howe...