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...sluggish Crimson team did an adequate job offensively, with Walt Stahura and Babe Simourian once again standing out. Each scored a touchdown, and each played almost the whole game, although Stahura had to be taken out at the end with a knee injury...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Penn Eleven Outplays Crimson, 28-14 | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

...hard as it may be for Harvard fans to believe, the Crimson was not upset by little Tufts on Saturday. Instead, the well-balanced Jumbos, as poised in the second half as the most experienced Ivy League football team, soundly defeated a sluggish-looking Crimson eleven...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Powerful Tufts Eleven Overcomes Crimson Varsity in Opener, 19-13 | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

...Thoroughly unimpressed by Maryland's record of 15 straight victories in regular-season games, Syracuse ran rings around the sluggish Terrapins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Season Opens | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

...Chan Gurney and Harmar Denny in the minority. Ordinarily, the board would then have waited about a month to announce it in a formal order, but word quickly leaked to the "corridor walkers"-the airline lobbyists who have been putting tremendous heat on CAB. Suddenly, Northeast's ordinarily sluggish shares (only 249,600 traded in all of 1955) zoomed; in just one day 24,000 were traded, with the stock jumping from 9½ to 12½. Finally, as the rumor hit front pages and the lobbyists turned their strongest pressure on CAB to change its mind, the agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Off to Miami | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

NYLON PRICES are being cut for the first time since 1947 in an attempt to bolster sluggish sales and avert widespread layoffs in synthetics plants. Du Pont and Chemstrand ordered 10% to 22% price cuts in nylon yarn. Dacron will be up to 30% cheaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Mar. 26, 1956 | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

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