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Should Kirkland pull off a somewhat improbable stunt and defeat Eliot, the three teams could easily be locked in a tie. But Eliot is not likely to lose...
...CRIMSON immediately received about 1000 coupons from gullible women throughout the country. Post Office officials, aware of the stunt by the increased mail volume, originally took a dim view of it but later agreed--at the CRIMSON'S suggestion--to forward all "Reduce-a-Leg" mail to the Lampoon...
Outrage is exactly what the strange craft was intended to provoke. The stunt of putting an outboard motor in a gondola was perpetrated by Gino Macropodio, who led his 350 fellow gondoliers in their latest protest against the growing encroachment of motorized craft in Venice. The motoscafi, strikers pointed out, violate the canals' 7-m.p.h. speed limit and kick up waves that further weaken the foundations of the slowly sinking city. Some motorboatmen also violate the city ordinance limiting their working hours from midnight to 6 a.m., carry passengers and small freight afterhours in competition with gondolas...
Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman had already scoffed at Farmer-Businessman William T. Smith's trip as "a partisan propaganda stunt"-which it clearly was. He had also protested that Smith was hardly a typical corn farmer-which he never claimed to be. But Smith's stunt was still singularly effective. Last year he grew 262 acres of corn on his 1,200-acre dairy and poultry farm at Big Flats, N.Y., where he also owns a restaurant and has varied business investments. This year, in protest against the Government's subsidy program, he agreed to take...
...stand for $1.50. Horses dive into water tanks, a British stunt team boing-boings giddily on flexible metal poles, a porpoise who thinks he is a Chris-Craft drags a blonde around on water skis. There are four theaters, all with Broadway-size capacities and customers drifting freely from one to another see everything from first-run movies to geriatric vaudeville. There are goldfish races, jazz bands, a believe-it-or-not museum, ballroom dancing, a Kiddies Theater where nearly all performers are under 16, a diving bell for the observation of bottom life. All this begins...