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Columbia errors triggered Harvard's three-run spree in the third. Pete Bernhard walked to lead off the inning and advanced on a wild pitch by losing pitcher John Heyel and an infield out by DeMichele. With two down, Varney hit a grounder to third that went between the legs of the Lions' Jim Alloy...
...record books of the Professional Golfers' Association will never show it, but the 1969 Los Angeles Open last month was a milestone. Short, stubby Charlie Sifford, jumping off to a first-round lead with five birdies and an eagle in one six-hole spree, won the season's opening tournament on the first hole of a sudden-death play-off against, ironically, South Africa's Harold Henning. Thus Sifford, long the victim of the apartheid in pro golf, picked up $20,000 and became, however briefly, the first Negro to lead the money winners...
...brief run in the second half behind two juniors, 6-1 Dave Whitley and 5-8 Gerry Dubey. After five minutes of play, the Jumbos had clawed within 15 points at 55-40. As the few faithful Harvard fans nervously checked their laughter, Gustavson put on a personal scoring spree to clinch the verdict...
...more mundane level, France's political malaise has had direct economic consequences. At the moment, France is seized by a giant buying spree. Fearing an eventual devaluation of the franc, Frenchmen are sinking their savings into goods. Two months ago, there were 10,000 color-television sets in all of France; now there are 70,000. Washing machines, record players and other appliances are being snapped up at a similar pace. Peugeot is receiving 500 orders a day for its most expensive ($3,000) model, the new 504, even though it can produce only...
...course, consumers had plenty of pocket money. Often during the 1960s, they have confounded economic forecasters by spending more lavishly than the experts had expected. This year, they went on something of a spree, correctly sensing that the prices of almost all goods and services were bound to rise. Such expectations become powerful economic forces, creating an inflationary psychology that is now firmly embedded in the thinking of businessmen, labor leaders and investors. Even after the tax increase, consumers rushed to buy practically everything. Their appetite for the well-styled 1969 autos was particularly keen; sales this year will reach...