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...first half, Harvard's six-point lead caused Yale to call a worried time-out. Then the Elis administered a zone press as Yale guards Rich Stone and Bob McCallum forced Harvard into numerous turnovers. Royer and Kanuth triggered a short comeback which cut the Yale lead from a high of 16 to the eight-point half-time margin...
...graduate school after college, while less than one-third plan to go to professional school. Eighty-seven per cent of the girls intend to work between the end of their schooling and marriage; more than half-say they will continue their working career after their marriage, without a time-out for being a housewife...
Hard on the Hearing. Auerbach's temper is legendary: when the Celtics blew a six-point lead against the New York Knickerbockers one night recently, he called a time-out and gave them a dressing down in full hearing of practically everybody at Madison Square Garden. "Oh, did I blow," Red recalled last week. "I chewed them out like they've never been chewed before...
Tory backbenchers, spoiling for a fight, wanted to press this advantage, but Sir Alec replied that Wilson deserved a chance to govern-and that a partisan time-out was in the nation's best interests. He used the hiatus to reorganize the Tories into fighting trim, resolved to do away with the traditional Tory way of choosing its leaders by the "customary processes"-that is, by informal agreement of the few ranking leaders. Home's successor will be chosen this week by democratic election in which all 303 Tory M.P.s will have equal votes...
...counting down the last five seconds of the quarter when Munro sauntered up behind him intent on the action. The timer, in turn intent upon his clock, reached zero, struck the gun out to the side and fired-directly into Munro's face. The officials refused the Crimson a time-out for an injured coach, and Harvard played a coachless five minutes while Munro received first aid. The crowd gave him a long ovation when, undaunted, he returned to action...