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...There was the generally muddled Republican situation. With the party's highest prize up for grabs, the G.O.P. presidential contest should have been a rousing, issue-sharpening affair. Instead, it has turned out to be a thumping bore. Then President Johnson's rising popularity seemed to make the whole show academic. Ironically, Goldwater gained strength from his party's defeatist attitude. Since no Republican had a chance against Johnson anyhow, the argument went, why not let the party's conservative wing have the nomination it has been demanding for so long...
Harvard got its lone run in the fourth inning on two walks and a solid two-base blast by shortstop Tom Bilodeau. But Joyce bore down and snuffed out the Crimson rally without any further scoring. The Crimson did, however, obtain nine hits and seven walks from the highly-regarded Holy Cross hurler...
...hired as a writer on FORTUNE, with a recommendation that bore an executive's comment that "taking him on the staff at an intermediate level on a three-to-six-months' trial basis would be a very good gamble." He became FORTUNE'S associate managing editor in 1951, managing editor in 1953, and six years later moved up to editorial director of all Time Inc. publications, serving as deputy to the editor-in-chief. In that capacity he sat in as acting managing editor of TIME, LIFE and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and, in greater or lesser degree, supervised...
...singles players won in straight sets except for number two man Chum Steele; he dropped the first set to the Bruins' Bob Higgenbottom before winning 4-6, 6-2, 6-4. Steele's play seemed a bit lackadaisical at times, but he bore down to make up a 3-4 defecit in the third...
Barrett's growing ascendence is always challenged by Susan, Tony's fiance (Wendy Craig). At first Tony to her is pretty much of a bore, although good family, good match, and all. She controls him, even calls him a fool. But Barrett upsets her mastery, undermines her confidence; he irritates because he knows more about wines and paintings, he interrupts a tete a tete, mains a jambes in Tony's study, and his seductive offers of stability and the seductress whom he offers woo Tony away from her. Tony is unimportant, but her pride is up; she must defeat Barrett...