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...ardent Air Force rooter. Goldwater has persistently backed presidential requests for military spending...
...last Thursday, the Jeffs managed to take two out of three. But the total picture against the Bulldogs was not nearly so favorable, as the Elis added six singles wins to the one doubles victory to romp off with a 7-2 triumph. And Yale, unfortunately for the Amherst rooter who would still like to rank his team high, is not considered to be particularly strong this year...
...pool records fell Saturday at the IAB as a Crimson bid to steal sole possession of the Ivy swimming crown was snuffed by the perenially potent Bulldogs. But despite the disappoining 43-52 defeat, no Harvard rooter could disparage the team's effort...
Year before, an overloaded Arctic-Pacific plane had made a forced landing with the Cal Poly team, and this time the stay-at-homes jokingly plastered the team's lockers with pictures of air crashes. Even so, many an envious rooter turned out to see the 35 members of the team, four coaches, the manager, doctor and a sportswriter from the San Luis Obispo Telegram-Tribune off on the big junket...
Hero Julian Starke is a poet and a Briton and, consequently, unemployable -"too clever for an executive position, too vague for trade, and too feeble to shift cement bags." He has worked variously and unvigorously as a cabbage rooter, road mender, ice cream hawker, oil company minor-domo and smuggler. As the book opens, he lives in a derelict farmhouse in Gloucestershire, but he is a bohemian, not a beatnik. The distinction lies in the fact that he makes his bed once a week, writes coherent English, and laughs at himself now and then...