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Such self-denial was the way of life at the farm in Angers, Quebec, where Filion was raised as one of ten children. His childhood, recalls a friend, was "three boys in a bed, two horses in a stall, that sort of thing." His father kept a few trotters on the farm, and Hervé practically grew up in a sulky seat. "When I was a kid," he recalls, "I used to run all the way home at lunchtime to work with the horses and then run back to school. I didn't play hockey like the other kids...
...initial stages of the contest held before a near capacity crowd at the IAB it appeared as if the Big Green would stall Harvard's swimming renaissance for another year. An extremely close Dartmouth win in the medley relay despite a superb 47.2 100-yd free anchor leg by Mike Cook, and a 1-3 Big Green win the 1000-yd free gave the visitors a 12.3 lead...
...stall proved to be Harvard's downfall Friday and Saturday as the cagers lost two tight ballgames to Princeton, 71-70, and to Penn...
What's worse than trying to sleep to the drip-drip of a leaky faucet? That's right. Trying to study to the clank-clank of a steam pipe. That's what the average stall-user has to contend with daily in Widener Library. With all respect to Widener's age and reputation as a bulwark of books, the place has at least this one uningratiating side. I guess you'd call it just old-fashioned wind. At any moment, the quiet of your stall is likely to be shattered by a god awful, devil-inspired cacophany of thumps, whacks...
Inevitable. Though Hanoi's anger and suspicion were thoroughly aroused by Richard Nixon's decision to stall the headlong negotiations beyond North Viet Nam's Oct. 31 "deadline" and the U.S. election, there never was much doubt that the North Vietnamese were still eager for a settlement. The Administration revealed last week that Hanoi had agreed in principle before the U.S. election to talk over the "six or seven issues" Kissinger had mentioned in his dramatic Oct. 26 TV press conference. After the Nov. 7 landslide, the North Vietnamese proposed to begin the talks...