Word: wrap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shadow Box has much the same spirit. And with its month-before-Christmas publication date, it will be a boon to the gift wrap industry. Yet in many ways Plimpton is writing for a narrower audience in Shadow Box. The usual sports figures vie for attention with literary and journalistic personalities. Readers looking for another Paper Lion may be stymied by Plimpton's pages on the death fantasies of contemporary literatteurs and the last words of their historical counterparts. Plimpton seems to be aiming at a readership more cultivated, perhaps, than the TV audience Paper Lion hit; readers...
...FALL WRAP-UP Varsity Football (4-5) at Columbia 21-7W Massachusetts 0-17L Colgate 21-38L at Cornell 17-7W Dartmouth 31-25W Princeton 7-20L at Brown 15-20L Pennsylvania 34-15W at Yale...
Parker thereupon jolted Helms, Wil-iams and Civiletti by declining to wrap up the deal right then and there. When Williams demurred, Parker asked: "You had hoped that I would sentence him today?" Replied Williams: "Both the Government and I had hoped that you would do that." The judge was not to be hurried. "Well, Mr. Williams, I am like a ship without a rudder. I am a fish out of the sea. I do not have any report or anything to aid me in sentencing...
...those of you who don't already know, it was in 1971 during Joe Restic's first campaign at the Crimson helm. A 21-10 throttling at the hands of Princeton had just dropped the Harvard record to 3-4, and the team had to wrap up its season on the road...
That was not enough for CCLA managers, who denounced the MCA offer to shareholders as "not being representative of the inherent worth of your company." Coke-L.A., they pointed out, is about to wrap up a deal of its own to acquire Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Mid-America. That would extend CCLA's marketing turf from Hawaii and the West Coast eastward. Both companies, like about 500 other Coke bottlers, are independent of the monster Coca-Cola Co. of Atlanta, which supplies bottlers for a fee with Coke syrup and rights to the trademark. The bottlers...