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Leading 4-2 in the third period. Penn appeared to be on the verge of repeating last year's stunning 4-3 upset over the Crimson. Harvard woke up with four final period goals, but the Quakers stayed with the Crimson all the way and almost pulled off the tying goal in the final seconds...
When the tally was in, the Minnesota senate was split evenly down the middle: 33 Liberal senators, 33 Conservatives-and Independent Palmer. The political neophyte woke up to find himself the most pivotal political figure in the state, holding the vote that would give control to either the Liberals or Conservatives in organizing the senate. Beyond the usual perks of patronage and committee chairmanships, the vote had special significance. With Minnesota facing reapportionment, the party in power would be able to redistrict to its advantage...
Because of World War II and his frontline service in the French Army, Mayer leaned to act decisively. Today Jean Mayer is a decisive man. The day I visited him, Mayer woke up at 4:30 a. m. to watch the funeral of DeGaulle on television. He said, "When I was with DeGaulle in London in 1942, it was clear to me and clear to everyone else there except the American government that De Gaulle was the only man who could lead France when we returned." Mayer, however, has no particular reverence for his former boss De Gaulle...
...phone has been ringing for the last week and woke him at 3:30 a.m. yesterday morning, he said, even though he had placed it out in the hall under a blanket...
...fryers in Noah Blevins' hen house woke up one morning recently to find a 10-ft. flame roaring up out of the barnyard. It was a "burn-off." Like a dozen or so other small farmers around Oneida, Tenn. (pop. 3,500), Blevins had just struck oil. Before long, the chicken coops took second place to storage tanks as the dominant topography on the Blevins farm. The biggest oil boom in the state's history has brought prosperity to rural Scott County on the Cumberland Plateau of eastern Tennessee...