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Completely dominating the play in the second half but unable to convert its advantage into goals, Harvard continued to look sluggish and disorganized much of the time it had the ball. The uncharacteristic inability to score which had stymied the squad against the Bruins was again in evidence, as repeated scoring opportunities failed to click for the exasperated Crimson...
...Crimson offense, working the complicated Restic system for the first time under game conditions, did not look particularly sharp. The offense in general looked sluggish and a little confused and made virtually no use of the pass. It was evident that the Yardlings, burdened with a fat playbook and unfamiliarity with each other, were feeling their...
...losing ground. From the selection of Tom Eagleton to Pierre Salinger's talks with the North Vietnamese in Paris, George McGovern stumbled steadily backward. He could hardly get started attacking Nixon, so busy was he fending off attacks on himself. But the approach of Labor Day jolted his sluggish campaign into action. As his campaign chairman Larry O'Brien ominously put it: "Labor Day is everybody's D-day." Last week, in quick succession, McGovern offered a new and more reasonable tax and welfare program, appealed to the Jewish vote by defending his record on Israel...
Even areas that remained sluggish throughout the winter and early spring are starting to move. Manufacturers' inventories rose $410 million in May, nearly six times the average increase for the previous twelve months. Exports have begun to revive. Unemployment is still much too steep, but the rate dropped last month from 5.9% to 5.5%, the lowest in 20 months. The heartening decline was due partly to a large seasonal adjustment for the annual flood of June graduates. White House economists are not sure why relatively few of them are listed as unemployed this year. "They must be out working...
...line is often cited as having more debt per mile than any other U.S. railroad. Last year Erie persuaded its creditors to stretch out some debt payments. Its deficit shrank from $8.9 million in 1970 to $2.1 million last year, but losses mounted again this year due to sluggish steel shipments. Through a series of subsidiaries, Erie is controlled by the wealthy Norfolk and Western Railway. Investors are now wondering what will happen to another line controlled by the N & W, the money-losing Delaware and Hudson. If it went into receivership, it would have plenty of company...