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...world's most exacting sports. The trick is to stay just short of disaster, taking the steeply banked turns as high as possible (so as to pick up speed on the way down), threading an absolutely straight course through the narrow straightaways, where a momentary miscalculation will slam the sled into a solid wall...
After winning the toss and electing to receive, Yale started the game in slam-bang fashion. Jim Fisher took Jim Babcock kickoff on his two-yard line, veered to the left, and eluded the grasp of several Harvard tacklers. He was finally hit on the Crimson's 36-yard line by safetyman Tom Williamson after a gain of 62 yards...
...Kicking Tires. Unlike the auto industry, in which buyers crowd into showrooms to kick tires and slam doors, the truckmakers rely on aggressive bell-ringing salesmanship. The fleet owners, the largest of which are A.T. & T., Hertz and REA Express, account for 30% of all sales. They care less about chrome than about axle ratios and operating costs, unlike auto buyers insist on vehicles that will easily run 400,000 miles without major overhaul. All the salesmen's calls and painstaking demonstrations for show-me truckers are worth the effort, however. Depending on optional equipment, truck sales...
...When I received my copy of TIME with the photomontage of rock 'n' roll stars on the cover, I immediately thought that TIME was going to slam the entire teen-age generation's music and have some old fogy who has only heard the Beatles on Uncle Ed Sullivan's show write it. Instead, it was a thoroughly comprehensive study of modern music...
...Brandeis game was a parody, Against the Justices' Fred Marden, ostensibly one of the best pitchers in the Boston area, Harvard scored five runs in the second and four more in the fourth on Tom Bilodeau's grand slam home...