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...hockey wins will face off at 4:30 this afternoon the Watson rink. Powerful Boston University with a 7-0 record may be the toughest opponent this season for the Yardlings, who have a spotless 6-0 record. On the basis of comparative scores, the one should be a tossup. The Terriers are defeated Boston College twice, 2 to 0 and 5 to 4, while the Yardlings also beat the Eagles, 6 to 4, just before the exam period layoff. Both teams gained two-final victories over Northeastern...
...Tossup. But in West Berlin, the remains of the old Municipal Opera company struggled to survive in a house whose ceiling was still perforated by bomb fragments. The Western occupation authorities did not include opera in their budget, so Municipal singers got starvation salaries. The few able conductors and singers who stuck with it did so only out of loyalty to the company or because their political consciences forbade them to sing for the Communists. Still, the Municipal Opera made out, and when the rival companies mounted simultaneous productions of, say, Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, it was a tossup...
...have decisive statewide effects. Just a few weeks ago, before Maryland's schools opened, Republican Governor Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin was an odds-on favorite for re-election over Democrat H.C. ("Curly") Byrd. Then came trouble in the newly desegregated schools, and by last week the race was a tossup...
...appointed him to the Senate as Bob Taft's replacement. And, in Ohio, the Lausche coattails are second to none-not even Dwight Eisenhower's, to which former Taftman George Bender has clung with might and main. As of last week, Ohio looked like a coattail tossup...
...thin varsity soccer team, depleted by sickness and injury, opens its season this afternoon against a strong but undermanned Wesleyan squad. The game, rated a tossup, begins at 2 p.m. on the Business School field...