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When Rolvaag offered Short the lieutenant governor slot on his "independent" ticket, the bandwagon was rolling. Rolvaag soon had the influential support of Twin Cities labor unions. The "Short for Lieutenant-Governor" and "Rolvaag-Short" campaigns were models of logistic efficiency. Billboards, bumper stcikers, newspaper ads, television and radio spots saturated the state...
Penn finished the season with a 2-7 record, which earned them the bottom slot in the Ivy League. As it turned out, that loss was the only one Harvard sustained against Penn in a seven-year span...
Three plays lost five yards. And with less than 30 seconds to play, Coach Henry Lamar called pint-sized halfback John Ballantine off the bench and put him in the quarterbacking slot. With fourth and 15, Ballantine amazed everyone by squirming around left end and slithering up the middle to the Jumbo...
...surprisingly, Don Herbert failed when he tried to sell his new series to commercial television. A few ad agen cies and sponsors showed some interest, but they could not entice an appropriate time slot from the big networks. "All those people said they liked it and were sure their families would watch it," recalls Herbert, "but they were just as sure that 'the masses' wouldn't." With a nationwide chain of 105 educational channels scheduled to telecast the Experiment series by next spring, the masses could-and should-prove them wrong...
...spokesman for Adams -- where diners currently hurl their tray, silverware and napkins through a slot in one motion -- said that he thought Adams would eventually institute such a system...