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...Saturday's scrimmage and yesterday's practice the forwards were extraordinarily strong within the pack. They seemed to have mastered the wheel method for taking the ball, and they were packing very well in loose scrums. However, they were sluggish in following the backs. Veteran second-row man Mike Foley attributed this to pre-season inexperience and poor conditioning...
...third and seemingly helpless in the fifth, Clay entered the sixth round obviously stronger than the 31 (sic)-year-old Liston. Clay was never hit with the full impact of Liston's awesome left hook, but he withstood considerable punishment and retained the speed and deceptivenss which rendered Liston sluggish and frustrated by the sixth...
Track fans who had hoped for a 17-foot pale vault by John Pennel or a 4 minute mile by John O'Hara saw Pennel fall to clear 15 ft. 7 in. and O'Hara trail Larry Rawson through most of 3 sluggish quarters before sprinting away to win in the lackluster time of 4:06.3. John Velses took the pole vault with a jump of 16 ft. 1 in., topping his own Garden record...
Lackluster Projection. When the year began, the economy was sluggish and tired after a 1962 that seemed to have sapped most of its energies. Unemployment stood at a distressing 5.8% of the work force, the G.N.P. was running $15 billion behind projections, and the stock market had not yet fully recovered from the resounding crash it took on Blue Monday, May 28, 1962. Many economists thought that the best that 1963 had in store was a business sag-hopefully too mild to call a recession-that would begin before midyear. Government forecasters were willing to project only a timid...
Harvard's basketball team whipped Williams, 66 to 57, in a dull, sluggish contest on the Ephs' home court Saturday night...