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VARSITY TRACK is host to Dartmouth and Brown in the stadium in what is expected to be one of the top track meets of the New England season. The triangular affair should be a nip-and-tuck arrangement for Brown and Dartmouth, and a cinch for the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Calendar | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

Bowditch and Sullivan have been nip and tuck for the top ranking so far this Spring, and may well spend the rest of the season unsuccessfully trying to prove that one of them has a clear-cut superiority over the other. Sullivan secured the first spot for the Southern trip with a victory over his opponent in the fall practice sessions, but since then Bowditch has been doing slightly better against the same opponents. He finally pasesd Sullivan this week. Bowditch's game makes good use of a powerful service, and should improve as the weather warms up. Sullivan also...

Author: By Frederic Ballard, | Title: Sullivan Lead Tennis Team | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

...that has an intimidatingly large area-6 ft. 7 in. high, 10 ft. wide. He watches his six teammates battle the attackers in a scrimmage that resembles basketball played before a lenient referee. The players not only dribble and pass what looks like a volleyball, but they can also tuck it under their arm and run for three steps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Flying for Fun | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

...pain to find a squirrel assiduously stuffing a peanut in his ear. He has crawled into a cave to lasso a python. At various times, chimpanzees have commandeered his bed and bath, mongooses have suckled maternally under his shirt, and baby rodents have waited impatiently for him to tuck the 3 a.m. hot-water bottle under their tiny feet. Animals come close to being Durrell's best friends, and as the zoologist brother of Novelist Lawrence (The Alexandria Quartet) Durrell, he writes about them with style, verve and humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Fon's Fauna | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...Scott to watch Scott's tally sheet. On the Democratic side of the aisle, John F. Kennedy sat somber-faced, his chin propped on one hand, his other hand nervously fiddling with a pencil. It was the most dramatic scene of Congress' postscript session: the nip-and-tuck roll call on the Kennedy-backed proposal to provide compulsory medical care for the aged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Democratic Debacle | 9/5/1960 | See Source »

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