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Princeton's soccer team tied favored Yale, 1 to 1, Saturday in Princeton to tighten the already close Ivy League race still further. Yale retains first place with a league record of four wins, no losses, and a tie, but has only a scant edge over Harvard and Pennsylvania, tied for second with records of four wins and one loss. The Elis will oppose the Crimson Friday at New Haven, and Penn travels to Cornell the next...
...roughest melee the American League had seen in years. And Casey came home with a team full of trouble. Few teams win a pennant without a first-class shortstop to tighten up their infield, and veteran Phil Rizzuto was five years past his prime, a step too slow in the field, a little too tired to play regularly. Jerry Coleman, who could have filled in, broke his collarbone April 22 and was out for three months. No sooner was he back when he was beaned and bench-ridden again. Often, Casey's pitching was pitiful...
...From Washington last week, the Federal Government reached out a firm hand to tighten the reins on the U.S. economy...
...point he noticed a couple of small avalanches break off to one side. After talking it over, the boys decided to start back down. Suddenly apprehensive, they slipknotted themselves onto a length of quarter-inch Manila line. It was another error-mountaineers never use slip knots, lest the ropes tighten around their midriffs...
URANIUM STOCK RUSH should be slowed down by new Securities & Exchange Commission rules. In a move to eliminate racketeers in penny stocks, the SEC will tighten its small-securities regulations by requiring brokers to give full details of all proposals, place a certain amount of stock-sale proceeds in escrow to insure that investment money will be used for legitimate business purposes...