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M.I.T. finished its spring tour with a 2-2 record. The Engineers lost to Horstra 15-8, and to C. W. Post, 13-6, while downing Adelphi, 7-2, and Loyola, 10-9. The Crimson earned its only victory during its trip by clubbing C. W. Post, 14-6, in its opener. But since that win Harvard has been hit by injuries, so comparative scores in this case are not really reliable...
Between 12:25 and 12:35, Watson, Epps, Freshman Dean F. Skiddy von Stade, Freshman Senior Advisors James E. Thomas, Christopher Wadsworth, W. C. Burrris Young, and two photographers were ejected from the main reception room...
...ALTOGETHER fitting and proper that John W. Gardner's Godkin Lectures should be the first to be delivered exclusively on television. Not that the former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare had prepared any deep tricks for exploiting the medium. He sometimes sat down and other times stood up in the rather unconvincing WGBH imitation office-study, delivering the three speeches in an even, almost monotonous voice, with many more verbal fluffs than one would expect from a public man of Gardner's titanic reputation...
Cotton in the Ears. Barbara Jo Rubin, 19, has already proved it. When she rode two winners on the same day at Waterford Park in Chester, W. Va., touts dismissed it as beginner's luck at a small-stakes track. Then she went to Aqueduct and, with pigtails flying, ran away from the field aboard an untried 13-1 shot named Bravy Galaxy. Quashing the cynics was gratifying, she says, but her biggest thrill was having the jockeys ambush her and douse her with a bucket of water, a traditional ceremony after an apprentice rider's first...
...began her training at riding academies in Miami. After a year of a pre-veterinary course in junior college, she became an exercise girl at Tropical Park. Then, after repeated tries at breaking the sex barrier, she rode and won her first race six weeks ago in Charles Town, W. Va. "Horse racing is pretty rank [rough]," she admits, but she guards herself from rank track language by stuffing her ears with cotton before each race. Though some jockeys still resent women encroaching on their livelihood, their ranks cannot help looking up to Barbara...