Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Undefeated Dunster and Winthrop will not meet until Nov. 19. This game may well decide which House will represent Harvard in the Little Big Game with Yale the following Saturday. Championship House teams will also play their opposite numbers from Yale in touch football, basketball, hockey, soccer, squash, swimming, baseball, golf, rowing, tennis, and softball...
Chamberlain's unending efforts to keep in touch with his district, even while attending to the daily legislative and committee work required of the conscientious Congressman, have kept him away from his wife, Charlotte, and their three children (Ellen, 12; Christine, 6; and Charles Jr., 4) more than he likes. But here again Chamberlain has a fine political asset: a wife who understands. Says Charlotte Chamberlain: "Somehow this extraordinary way of living-two homes, two worlds-comes to be taken in stride. The only time I realize that we aren't quite as stable as other people...
...Cortisone-type hormones stimulate peptic ulcers-despite combinations with antacids-sometimes to the point of perforation. Some patients experience extreme mood changes like the manic and depressive phases of manic-depressive psychosis. Especially in children, the hormones can touch off grand mal epilepsy; in oldsters, they may weaken the bones to the point of spontaneous fracture...
...Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Maserati and Mercedes-Benz. Twice he narrowly escaped death. In 1948 his car went off the road in the Grand Prix of South America, killing his partner. In 1952 he broke his neck in a race at Monza, Italy. But Fangio developed the delicate sense of touch that enabled him to tread the fine line between the speed that wins and the speed that kills...
...quit because my gas tank was ripped, I felt as if my own flesh were wounded. This feeling of oneness with a car, and that I had luck in getting the best cars I could drive, made me a champion far more than snappy shifting, lightness of touch on the steering wheel or daring curve cutting...