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...Harvard swimming team, winning most of the races but failing to score significantly in the seconds and thirds, saw Dartmouth spoil their undefeated season on Saturday as the Indians pulled out a narrow 57-56 win in Hanover. The loss dropped the swimmers' record...
...doubtless prompted by a sudden increase in the flow of enemy supplies down the Ho Chi Minh Trail, where the seasonal surge in Communist truck traffic has come much earlier than usual. By hitting the Communist staging areas in Cambodia in the coming weeks. ARVN forces hope to spoil enemy plans to regroup and resupply for an offensive in South Viet Nam early next year...
Catholic Tastes. That is putting it mildly. Rats and their parasites carry bubonic plague, murine typhus, trichinosis, leptospirosis and other diseases. Rats bite man in anger or nibble infants in hunger. Rats spoil an estimated 33 million tons of cereals each year, either by eating them outright or contaminating them with droppings. They steal eggs (whole), gnaw lazy elephants' feet and can kill young lambs...
...care. ("You have to be a saint in this profession," says the gynecologist, but we suspect he's not about to be canonized.) And when, after being hauled off to a roadhouse-brothel by his brothers, Laurent has a small measure of success with a prostitute, his drunken brothers spoil it all by bursting into the room to drag him from bed at a thoroughly inopportune moment...
...Please, no more quotes from guys like the Rams' Deacon Jones: "I hope to end Archie Manning's career the next time we meet" [Oct. 11]. I love football. I believe it's more than goons crunching each other. Don't spoil...