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...Spun-Sugar Story. The ho-hum atmosphere of the trial became almost surreal with the appearance for the defense of Dean Andrews, a pudgy little New Orleans lawyer. Andrews set off the Garrison investigation with a story that he got a phone call from one "Clay Bertrand" the day after Kennedy was shot, asking him to defend Oswald. Andrews had already switched his story so often that he had been convicted of lying to a grand jury. When Assistant D.A. James Alcock tried to pick apart points that helped the defense, Andrews retracted the rest of the tale, swallowing...
...over Army at the conclusion of the afternoon field events. Captain Benka led teammate Charlie Ajootian in a one-two sweep of the shot put. The winning toss was a lackluster 57'4". Ajootian's distance of 54'7 1/4" was a personal best for the hardworking senior. Nosal spun the 35-pound weight 60'3" to outdistance Doug Backers and Ed Potts of Navy by six inches...
Even the English, who send CARE packages to needy sheep dogs, have never made house pets of spiders. But Iris Murdoch often deals even-headedly with oddities. This time she has spun a touching tale of wayward love and wanly threatening death, centered around a moribund octogenarian named Bruno Greensleave, whose twilight passion is for champagne and arachnids...
...second half was a succession of scoring skeins, first by Columbia (read "Jim McMillian" or "Heywood Dotson") and then by Harvard. Dover dropped in several lunging layups which caught the backboard at a peculiar angle but then spun into the basket...
...short turnaround which missed and fell into U.S.F. hands. Dullea was fouled but missed the free throw and, after a wild scramble, Kanuth and Hardy came away with the rebound. Harrison called timeout and set up a play for Gallagher to tie the game. The "Rabbit" spun in from the right corner, but leery of an offensive foul, went with a left-handed hook in the lane rather than continuing his drive...