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After a successful regular season, the Harvard fencing team wound up in a disappointing eighth place in the three-weapon Intercollegiate Fencing Championships this weekend at New York University...
...usual run of Irish jokes and Polish jokes and Jewish jokes. But the star of the annual Circus Saints and Sinners show was a tall guy with a lopsided grin who told a few on himself. "In case you have forgotten, I'm the man who wound up a little more than 300,000 heartbeats from the presidency," quipped Senator Edmund Mus-Icie, the guest of honor. However, he pointed out, "There's only one thing lower than a defeated candidate for Vice President-and that's a successful one." Besides, "I have some reason to believe...
...Where are you wounded?" he asked me. I pointed out my wound to him. The Pig of Pigs looked down at my wound, raised his foot and stomped on the wound...
Still groggy, John shaved, dressed and went to feed the attack-trained Doberman pinscher that he had leased for $25 a week. Holding out the meat, he forgot and commanded, "Get it!"; the dog obediently bit his hand. He was still bandaging the wound when two policemen, answering the Tel-Guard summons, began pounding at his door. Fumbling frantically, John managed to undo the three locks on the door, but in the process he dropped the 7-lb. vertical steel bar from the $14.50 Police Fox lock on his foot. After apologizing profusely to the cops, he limped back inside...
...country's production grew by almost 9% in 1968 and should expand by another 6.5% in 1969-with inflation accounting for barely 2% of the rise in each year. As a result of that performance, the Germans registered a trade surplus of $4.6 billion last year and wound up with $10 billion in gold and monetary reserves, compared with France's $4.1 billion...