Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, in the hushed, unhurried atmosphere of the 14th floor executive suite of G.M.'s grey stone fortress in Detroit, Jim Roche cogitated aloud about the state of business. "If anything is happening to the economy now," he said, "it is perhaps a slight dip. It's obvious that a dip here and there is a very normal thing. I don't think it's going to be a serious drop...
Harvard has won the title two years in a row, but coach Bill McCurdy considers the Army team, which lost by one point to the Crimson is March's indoor meet, a slight favorite Navy, as well as Harvard, could challenge the Cadets...
Pardee will also enter the broad jump, in which Navy's Tom Palkie is a favorite, and the triple jump, in which Princeton's Mel Branch holds a slight edge. Both fields are remarkably even. No one has reached 24 feet in the broad jump or 47 feet in the triple jump...
...same time that McGuinn looked like a sure winner, Bob Sinclair and Wayne Thornbrough were holding slight leads on Yale's sixth and seventh men. But Sinclair, who burned out a 37 on the front nine, missed a one-foot putt to blow the 17th and bogeyed the 18th to fall, 1 down...
That's probably a slight to the collegians to whom the style of awkward earnestness came naturally. They, at least, in their nominating speeches, didn't indulge in the verbal absurdities of the candidates...