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...each of larceny and conspiracy) against the two defendants. "It's only fair to say I am now over the brink," declared the exasperated judge. What pushed Nichol over was Kurd's refusal to allow the case to be decided by only 11 jurors after the twelfth became ill. "I'm rather ashamed that the Government was not represented better in this case," said Nichol in the course of an hour-long denunciation of the prosecution...
...walk to Al Kaline and a double by Bill Freehan in the bottom of the fourth produced Detroit's first run off Reggie Cleveland, who collected his twelfth win of the season, and the Tigers got two unearned runs in the ninth...
...part of the merger agreement, the memorandum continued, Robert B. Watson '37, director of Athletics, gained control over budgeting and policymaking for Radcliffe's program, and Paget, then in her twelfth year as director of Radcliffe's Sports, Dance and Recreation Department, became a member of Watson's staff. (On the bureaucratic ladder of the Harvard Athletic Department, Paget's current post as assistant to the director of Athletics for Radcliffe is listed right under the Harvard ticket manager...
Native Son. A twelfth-generation American, the Ivy League scion of a U.S. Steel executive, Beecher has worked furiously to turn himself into a self-made common man. "Bard of the people" might be the title he has aspired to for 50 years, like Vachel Lindsay and Carl Sandburg before him. But Beecher is no folk charlatan. He has paid his dues. When he refused to sign a loyalty oath during the McCarthy era, he was fired from the faculty of San Francisco State College. The city of Birmingham, which declared May 1 John Beecher Day, was not so pleased...
...Twelfth Night fluttered the less feebly of the two. It is a real plotboiler. There are identical twins, separated by shipwreck and tossed on an alien shore. There are assumed disguises, confusions of love and mistaken identities...