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Saturday was no day for football. Ask any of the 5000 spectators who sogged through four quarters of the Harvard-BU contest. Ask the stadium vendors who had to sell soggy popcorn. Ask Box Jox, who cancelled on their Crimson football commitment. Ask Boston University coach Larry Navisux...
Especially ask Larry Navisux. It was no day for football and BU's Terriers more than proved it. They fumbled on the first two plays of the game. They fell behind, 31-0, as Harvard scored the first five times the Crimson had the ball. And then, slipping, sliding, and bobbling along, they lost to Harvard...
...wasn't football. Maybe "grease-the-pig" or "slitherball," but not football. BU fumbled a dozen times, and Harvard retaliated with five of their own. Seventeen fumbles in four quarters! Even the 30 m.p.h. winds that drove sheets of rain in from the open end of the field couldn't behave...
...Washington with the Soviet deputy of foreign trade in May, and announced his intention to resign two days later. He joined Continental on June 8 -and on July 2, he escorted the Soviet grain buyers on a sightseeing tour of Washington, D.C. On July 5, Continental sold 150 million bu. of wheat and 41 million tons of feed grains to Russia. This was three days before the Administration announced its big grain deal. After the announcement, Continental quickly sold Russia another 37 million bu. of wheat...
When Palmby denied bringing any inside information to Continental, no one on the committee pressed him on why Continental sold wheat at precisely the same terms as those announced three days later by the White House. No one questioned why Continental would commit itself to selling 150 million bu. to Russia without some assurance that the Agriculture Department would protect its price by raising the export subsidy-as it later did. Because of the amount of money involved, Continental apparently risked heavy losses without such assurance...