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Successful shouting paid off in the 200-yard breaststroke, however, where Sigo Falk passed Dan Goethe with a spurt in the last yards. Goethe had been placed at the far edge of the pool as a sleeper, where Falk could...
...Lions pulled ahead during the short spurt largely on fast breaks. Time after time the Crimson would be caught empty-handed as one of Columbia's speedy guards would be racing toward the basket to catch a long pass and dribble in for an easy basket...
...effect a public sale, and that the company had thus violated the law by failing to register the securities offering or make full disclosure of company records. However, Wall Streeters suspected that the SEC was less interested in this aspect of the case than in the sudden spurt in Crowell-Collier stock early this year on optimistic estimates of company earnings prospects. By last August more than $500,000 worth of debentures had been quietly converted into shares of common stock, said SEC; shares were then sold at a profit to "numerous" other investors. Financier Lannan replied that Crowell-Collier...
Hurley scored half of his 20 points during this spurt, sinking four layups and a push shot, and Dick Woolston added six and Neil Muncaster four...
...roosters, like the slack-jawed worshipers of Elvis Presley and their spiritual ancestors in the U.S., the hootch-swilling hellions of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1920s, the truants of Japan have no place to run but away. Soon after the war, their restlessness was marked by a sharp spurt in juvenile delinquency. Today, after a brief respite, delinquency, violence and sex crimes among the young are once again on the rise in Japan, but beyond this criminal fringe is a whole generation of Japanese youngsters whose only wish is to kick over the traces...