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...last week Xerox's stock had fallen a drastic 18¼ points since the September announcement, costing the company's investors a paper loss of $400 million and reflecting a widespread notion that a link with solid but unspectacular C.I.T. could only tarnish Xerox as a glittering growth stock. At any rate, there were palpable signs of stockholder relief when the deal was finally dropped. In the first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange after the announcement, Xerox was bid up 6½ points to $277.25 a share...
Despite Andover's unspectacular .500 pace. Harvard coach Dana Getchell expects his unbeaten team to face a rough test. "I think it's the best Andover squad I've faced in five or six years," Getchell said. "DiClemente [Andover's soccer coach] always gets his boys way up for this one," he added, "and I expect they'll fight hard and mark my forwards closely throughout the game...
Sophomore Howie Foye has been making quiet, unspectacular progress behind the front-runners. Far from being one of the leading lights on last year's freshman squad, Foye made the jump to five miles with ease, running the best race of his career to finish fifth against Brown...
Arlington's Tom Spengler contributes sarcasm to cross country joke sessions and consistent, unspectacular running to meets. Quiet, serious Howie Foye combines with lanky Max Schweizer and "Palo Alto Fats" Enscoe to form a solid supporting cast of sophomores...
...geared to exhibit the former Vice President as the nation's youngest elder statesman. New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, whose cause was belatedly promoted by a haphazard write-in campaign after the abrupt exit of Michigan Governor George Romney, won only 11% of the vote, an unspectacular showing that some Republicans thought might possibly have condemned him to the political penumbra...