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...problems in that game was its poor shooting, which prevented it from taking advantage of Penn's difficulties. However, since that game, Harvard has been playing a more consistent and confident shooting game, so that this time it should be able to capitalize on a Quaker cold-shooting spell...
Boston College played like the Pope had blessed it in the lockerroom before the opening round of the Beanpot, but the spell only lasted a period and a half. Ahead 3-2, the Eagles, finally began looking like the 8-13 team they are while Harvard was picking up where it left off against Princeton and scoring at will...
Great Bodies. In spite of a record cold spell, Manhattan stores and boutiques can barely match supply to demand. Designers like Halston, Adolfo, Sant Angelo and Betsey Johnson are grinding them out for customers from Jackie Onassis, who stocked up on Halston's shorties for yacht wear, to career girls like Celanese Fabric Coordinator Jacquie Nelson, whose bosses last week granted her permission to wear her knit shorts to work. Bloomingdale's department store ran a hot-pants advertisement this month, only to discover that the resulting zoom in sales was partly due to a cross-town rush...
...Tribune insisted that three-quarters of its reader mail favored simplified spelling, but a significant segment of the readership came to feel the self-proclaimed "world's greatest newspaper" was rather the world's gratest. By the time McCormick died in 1955, the list of simplified words, which once ran as high as 80, was already shrinking. Reluctantly, the Trib shot down the sherif and later sank the frater. "Readers," sighs Editor Clayton Kirkpatrick, "wondered if Tribune editors knew how to spell." The latest style book retains only a few relics of the Bennett era, most of them...
...better. Demonstrating both arrogance and a lack of touch with popular feelings, the government neglected to explain adequately what it was doing; as rumors spread about price increases and wage freezes, people pulled money from under mattresses and went on buying sprees. When the government finally did attempt to spell out the complicated new system, explanatory meetings frequently dissolved in confusion...