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Harvard's slowdown at the end of the first half was a bad omen. After the half-time break. Penn pulled away with ease with its fast breaks and outside shooting. Near the end of the third quarter the Quakers led 59 to 48; they began to stall and forced Harvard out of its zone and into a man-to-man defense...

Author: By Richard Andrews, | Title: Quaker Quintet Dumps Cold-Shooting Crimson | 2/10/1964 | See Source »

...Quakers continued to stall, but Sedlacek broke it up by fouling Penn's Joe Andrews. In a one-and-one situation the second-string center blew the shot, Harvard grabbed the rebound, and it appeared that the second miracle within 24 hours was about to transpire...

Author: By Richard Andrews, | Title: Quaker Quintet Dumps Cold-Shooting Crimson | 2/10/1964 | See Source »

With 9:06 to play the score was 54-50, but in the next eight minutes Harvard scored a total of seven points and Yale blew the game wide open, then went into an aggravating stall which eroded Harvard's effective zone...

Author: By Richard Andrews, | Title: Quintet Bows to Bulldogs, Crushes Hapless Brown | 2/3/1964 | See Source »

...both barrels of a shotgun. Last November, Domenico Demarie, 41, got the same treatment, but he survived as a sick and frightened man who swears he has no idea who attacked him or why. Fortnight ago, Vincent Muratore, 43, rose before dawn to go to his wholesale produce stall at the market. He got as far as his car when someone fired through the rear window, killing him instantly. Two days later, Truck Gardener Antonio Monaco, 39, was gunned down outside his shack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia: Omerta in the Antipodes | 1/31/1964 | See Source »

Railroaders are going out of their way to downplay their improvement, for fear that it will add to wage demands, make the Interstate Commerce Commission less willing to permit rail mergers, and stall the railroads' drive for relief from high city and state taxes. Railroaders argue that their profit picture has been artificially brightened by the new 7% investment tax credit and liberalized depreciation rules, which together added more than $100 million to railroad earnings in 1962. Though freight revenues are running 2.5% ahead of 1962, railroaders also point out that passenger revenues will slide 4% this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Railroads: Profits & Perils | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

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